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The New Criminology. by Taylor, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Classical criminology and the positivist revolution; The classical school of criminology; Neo-classical revisionism; The positivist revolution; The quantificationof behaviour; Scientificneutrality; The determinism of behaviour; 2. The appeal of positivism; The consensus world view; The determinism of behaviour; The science of society; The meshing of interests; Lombroso; Body types in biological positivism; The XYY chromosome theory; Eysenck; Trasler; Conclusion.…”
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Ernst Cassirer : the last philosopher of culture by Skidelsky, Edward

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the alienation of reason -- The Marburg school -- The new logic -- Between irony and tragedy -- The philosophy of symbolic forms -- Logical positivism -- The philosophy of life -- Heidegger -- Politics.…”
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Law, rights and discourse : the legal philosophy of Robert Alexy

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Preface -- TOC36;Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I A Debate on Legal Positivism -- CH36;1 The Argument from Justice44; or How Not to Reply to Legal Positivism -- CH36;2 An Answer to Joseph Raz -- Part II Law and Morality -- CH36;3 Why Law Makes No Claims -- CH36;4 How Non45;Positivism Can Accommodate Legal Certainty -- CH36;5 Two Concepts of Objectivity -- CH36;6 Discourse Ethics44; Legal Positivism and the Law -- Part III Constitutional Rights -- CH36;7 Political Liberalism and the Structure of Rights58; On the Place and Limits of the Proportionality Requirement -- CH36;8 Proportionality44; Discretion and the Second Law of Balancing -- CH36;9 Human Rights and the Claim to Correctness in the Theory of Robert Alexy -- CH36;10 Three45;Person Justification -- Part IV Discourse and Argumentation -- CH36;11 Law8217;s Claim to Correctness -- CH36;12 A Teleological Approach to Legal Dialogues -- CH36;13 The Claim to Correctness and Inferentialism58; Alexy8217;s Theory of Practical Reason Reconsidered -- CH36;14 The Concept of Validity in a Theory of Social Action -- CH36;15 The Weight Formula and Argumentation -- Part V Comments and Responses -- CH36;16 Thirteen Replies -- IDX36;Index -- Last Page.…”
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Key Perspectives in Criminology. by Tierney, John

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover Page; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents Page; Introduction; 1 Abolitionism; 2 Administrative Criminology; 3 Anomie Theory; 4 Chicago School; 5 Classical Criminology; 6 Control Theory; 7 Critical Criminology; 8 Cultural Criminology; 9 Feminism; 10 Labelling Theory; 11 Left Realism; 12 Masculinities; 13 Positivism; 14 Post-modernism; 15 Right Realism; 16 Subcultural Theory; References; Index; End Cover Page.…”
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Fiction rivals science : the French novel from Balzac to Proust by Thiher, Allen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to literature's encounter with science -- Balzac and the unity of knowledge -- Flaubert and the ambiguous victory of positivism -- Zola's collaborative rivalry with science -- Proust and the end of epistemic competition.…”
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Normative jurisprudence : an introduction by West, Robin, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : toward normative jurisprudence -- Revitalizing natural law -- Legal positivism, censorial jurisprudence, and legal reform -- Critical legal studies : the missing years -- Conclusion : reconstructing normative jurisprudence.…”
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Japan and the enemies of open political science by Williams, David, 1948 July 19-

Table of Contents: “…Japan and the European political canon -- Where are the masters? -- Positivism -- Empiricism -- Orientalism -- Languages -- Criticism -- Readers -- Philosophies -- Thinkers -- Classics -- Japan and the end of political scientific marginality: the argument restated.…”
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Nietzsche's philosophy of history by Jensen, Anthony K., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Philological centaurs -- Early meta-history and context -- Aesthetic intuition and the history of tragedy -- History and historians -- Positivism and perspectivism -- Genealogy as history -- Autobiography as history -- Nietzsche's influence on philosophy of history.…”
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The missiological implications of epistemological shifts : affirming truth in a modern/postmodern world by Hiebert, Paul G., 1932-2007

Table of Contents: “…THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF POSITIVISM; 2. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CHALLENGES OF INSTRUMENTALISM AND IDEALISM; 3. …”
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The evolutionist economics of Léon Walras by Jolink, Albert, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…From romanticism to logical positivism.…”
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The dialectic of practice and the logical structure of the tool : philosophy, archaeology and the anthropology of technology by Kozatsas, Jannis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; PART I: A Brief History of Research: From neo-positivism to phenomenology and beyond ; Elusive technology and analytic dualism: between processual objectivism and post-processual idealism ; French and American anthropology of technology: synthetic dualism and the concept of the 'process' ; The chaîne opératoire approach: some theoretical remarks ; Symmetrical theory and the phenomenology of material culture ; PART II: Hegel and the Concept of Practice: Elements for a dialectical theory of technology ; Dialectics in contemporary archaeological and anthropological theory ; The dialectic of practice: reconsidering Hegel ; PART III: The Subject, the Object, and the Logical Structure of the Tool ; Heidegger's phenomenology or the tool as not a tool ; Hegel's tools: relationality, universality, and effectivity ; Epilogue ; References.…”
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The impact of international organizations on international law by Alvarez, José E., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Legal positivism and its discontents -- The UN Charter over time : the contemporary Security Council -- The contemporary General Assembly -- A contemporary specialized agency : the WHO -- The main functions of international adjudication -- Three challenges posed by international organizations.…”
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The modern intellectual tradition : from Descartes to Derrida

Table of Contents: “…Rise of 20th century philosophy, phenomenology ; Physics, positivism and early Wittgenstein ; Emergence and Whitehead ; Dewey's American naturalism ; Heidegger's Being and time ; Existentialism and the Frankfurt School -- Disc 5. …”

Philosophical Darwinism : on the origin of knowledge by means of natural selection by Munz, Peter, 1921-2006

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: COGNITIVE CONDITIONS; MAN'S GLASSY ESSENCE; THE DUBIOUS CREDENTIALS OF POSITIVISM; THE LURE OF SOCIOLOGY; THE NATURE OF THE MIRROR; THE VIEW FROM SOMEWHERE; Notes; Index.…”
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Liberty and the pursuit of knowledge : Charles Renouvier's political philosophy of science by Schmaus, Warren, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Renouvier's place in nineteenth-century French thought -- Renouvier's critique of Comtean positivism -- Renouvier and mathematics -- Renouvier on evolution -- Kant, free will, and the social contract -- Hypothesis and convention in Renouvier's philosophy of science -- Conclusion.…”
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Mindful Inquiry in Social Research. by Bentz, Dr. Valerie Malhotra Malhotra

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 -- Research: The New Context and a New Approach; Chapter 2 -- From Positivism to Postmodernity: The Mindful Inquirer as a Philosopher; Chapter 3 -- Mindful Inquiry as the Basis for Scholarly Practice; Chapter 4 -- Fundamentals of Mindful Inquiry; Chapter 5 -- The Scholarly Practitioner: Facing the Loss of Identity through the Onslaught of the Information Age; Chapter 6 -- Cultures of Inquiry and Research Traditions; Chapter 7 -- Phenomenological Inquiry; Chapter 8 -- Hermeneutic Inquiry and Ethnography.…”
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Ṭāhā Ḥusain's education : from the Azhar to the Sorbonne by Maḥmūdī, ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Ṣādiq

Table of Contents: “…A Love storyThe New Sorbonne; The Positivist field; Positivist reformism; Cartesian doubt; The Methodological crisis; VII Reconciliations; The Lansonian Synthesis; A common front against Ibn Khaldūn; The Croisets; Hellenic humanism; The Logic of the heart; Positivism dying hard; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The social science jargon buster : the key terms you need to know by O'Leary, Zina

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Action research -- Aesthetics -- Agency -- Alienation -- Anomie -- A posteriori/a priori -- Authority -- Behaviourism -- (The) body -- Bureaucracy -- Capital -- Capitalism -- Causation -- Chaos theory -- Class -- Cognitive dissonance -- Collective -- Colonization -- Commidification -- Communism -- Community -- Conflict theory -- Conservatism -- Critical/radical -- Cultural studies -- Culture -- Deconstruction -- Deductive/inductive reasoning -- Democracy -- Determinism -- Develop/developing countries -- Deviant behaviour -- Dialectic -- Dichotomy -- Discourse -- Egalitarianism -- Empiricism -- Epistemology -- Essentialism -- Ethics -- Ethnocentrism -- Ethnography -- Ethnomethodology -- Existentialism -- Fascism -- Feminism -- Functionalism -- Fundamentalism -- Game theory -- Genealogy -- Globalization -- Governance -- Grounded theory -- Hegemony -- Hermeneutics -- Historical materialism -- Historicism -- Human/social ecology -- Humanism -- Hybridity -- Hypothesis/hypotetico-deductive method -- 505 00 Id/ego/superego -- Idealism -- Identity -- Ideology -- Imperialism -- Individualism -- Industrialization -- Instrumentalism -- Justice -- Knowledge -- Labelling theory -- Labour -- Leadership -- Liberalism -- Marginalization -- Marxism -- Materialism -- McDonaldization -- Metanarratives -- Methodology -- Methods -- Micro/macroeconomics -- Modernism/postmoderism -- Modernity -- Multiculturalism -- Nationalism -- Nominalism -- Norms -- Ontology -- Other -- Paradigm -- Patriarchy -- Pedagogy/critical pedagogy -- Personality -- Phenomenology -- Pluralism -- Positivism -- Postmodernity -- Post-industrial -- Post-positivism -- Power -- Pragmatism -- Praxis -- Prejudice/discrimination -- Protestant ethic -- Qualitative/quantitative -- Rationalism -- Realism -- Reductionism -- Reflexivity -- Reification -- Relativism -- Research credibility (positivist) -- Research credibility (post-positivist).…”
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Our knowledge of the law : objectivity and practice in legal theory by Pavlakos, George

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The social science jargon buster : the key terms you need to know by O'Leary, Zina

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Action research -- Aesthetics -- Agency -- Alienation -- Anomie -- A posteriori/a priori -- Authority -- Behaviourism -- (The) body -- Bureaucracy -- Capital -- Capitalism -- Causation -- Chaos theory -- Class -- Cognitive dissonance -- Collective -- Colonization -- Commidification -- Communism -- Community -- Conflict theory -- Conservatism -- Critical/radical -- Cultural studies -- Culture -- Deconstruction -- Deductive/inductive reasoning -- Democracy -- Determinism -- Develop/developing countries -- Deviant behaviour -- Dialectic -- Dichotomy -- Discourse -- Egalitarianism -- Empiricism -- Epistemology -- Essentialism -- Ethics -- Ethnocentrism -- Ethnography -- Ethnomethodology -- Existentialism -- Fascism -- Feminism -- Functionalism -- Fundamentalism -- Game theory -- Genealogy -- Globalization -- Governance -- Grounded theory -- Hegemony -- Hermeneutics -- Historical materialism -- Historicism -- Human/social ecology -- Humanism -- Hybridity -- Hypothesis/hypotetico-deductive method -- 505 00 Id/ego/superego -- Idealism -- Identity -- Ideology -- Imperialism -- Individualism -- Industrialization -- Instrumentalism -- Justice -- Knowledge -- Labelling theory -- Labour -- Leadership -- Liberalism -- Marginalization -- Marxism -- Materialism -- McDonaldization -- Metanarratives -- Methodology -- Methods -- Micro/macroeconomics -- Modernism/postmoderism -- Modernity -- Multiculturalism -- Nationalism -- Nominalism -- Norms -- Ontology -- Other -- Paradigm -- Patriarchy -- Pedagogy/critical pedagogy -- Personality -- Phenomenology -- Pluralism -- Positivism -- Postmodernity -- Post-industrial -- Post-positivism -- Power -- Pragmatism -- Praxis -- Prejudice/discrimination -- Protestant ethic -- Qualitative/quantitative -- Rationalism -- Realism -- Reductionism -- Reflexivity -- Reification -- Relativism -- Research credibility (positivist) -- Research credibility (post-positivist).…”
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Chemistry : the Impure Science. by Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette

Table of Contents: “…; Between the Macro and the Micro; Notes; Chapter 10 Positivism and Chemistry; A Variety of Positivisms; Chemistry as the Model for Positive Science.…”
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Chemistry : the impure science by Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette

Table of Contents: “…Between the macro and the micro -- ch. 10. Positivism and chemistry. A variety of positivisms. …”
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The politics of inquiry : education research and the "culture of science" by Baez, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…On "education research" -- On scientism and positivism : John Dewey and education research -- Degrees of distinction : education doctoral study and the "culture of science" -- "Governing" science : the scientific imaginary and the creation of people in the information age -- Entrepreneurship and the "grants culture" : privatization of research and academic freedom.…”
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Rhetorical darwinism : religion, evolution, and the scientific identity by Lessl, Thomas M., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…The social meaning of evolutionary rhetoric -- Francis Bacon and the scientific identity -- Science in God's bosom -- From two books to one -- The new Christianity -- Positivism in the world of Thomas Huxley -- Scientism scientized -- The continuing evolution of evolutionism and science's battle for the public mind.…”
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Introduction to criminology by Pond, Russell

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 2. Classicism -- 3. Positivism -- 4. Strain Theories -- 5. Control Theories -- 6. …”
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Eric Voegelin and the foundations of modern political science by Cooper, Barry, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Abbreviations; Escape and Arrival; War and Political Ideas; Positivism and the Destruction of Science; Method Voegelin, Strauss, and Arendt; Philosophical Anthropology; The Reader of History; The Range of Evidence; Intelligible Units of Analysis; Vico and the New Science of Politics; Schelling; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Hunting for empire : narrative of sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70 by Gillespie, Greg, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…An imperial interior imagined -- The prefatory paradox: Positivism and authority in hunting narratives -- Cry havoc? …”
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The Past Within Us : an Empirical Approach to Philosophy of History. by Martin, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…Two Approaches to Philosophy of History; 2. Positivism and Its Critics: The Common Assumptions; 3. …”
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Philosophy and the sciences of exercise, health and sport : critical perspectives on research methods

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Positivism, Popper and Paradigms: An Introductory Essay in the Philosophy of Science; 2. …”
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Wittgenstein and Modern Philosophy. by Hartnack, Justus

Table of Contents: “…The Tractatus and Logical Positivism; IV. The Philosophical Investigations; V. …”
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The Nature of Political Theory. by Vincent, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- 1 An Eclectic Subject -- Foundations -- Theory and Politics -- Pattern of the Book -- PART ONE -- 2 We Have a Firm Foundation -- Classical Normative Political Theory -- Institutional Political Theory -- Historical Political Theory -- Empirical Political Theory -- Ideological Political Theory -- Conclusion -- PART TWO -- 3 Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred -- Logical Positivism -- Ordinary Language -- A Digression on Death and Putrefaction -- Wittgenstein and Essential Contestability -- A Reckoning with Essential Contestability…”
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Fictions of certitude : science, faith, and the search for meaning, 1840-1920 by Haller, John S., Jr., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Positivism : Auguste Comte -- Assent : John Henry Newman -- The unknown : Herbert Spencer -- Higher intelligence : Alfred Russel Wallace -- Agnosticism : Thomas Henry Huxley -- Cosmic theism : John Fiske -- Will to believe : William James -- Telesis : Lester Frank Ward -- Entheism : Paul Carus -- Roads not taken.…”
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Chasing reality : strife over realism by Bunge, Mario, 1919-2020

Table of Contents: “…Reality and hylorealism -- Phenomena, phenomenalism, and science -- Antirealism today: positivism, phenomenology, constructivism -- Causation and chance: apparent or real? …”
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Philosophy and philosophers : an introduction to western philosophy by Shand, John, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Phenomenology and existentialism -- 10. Logical positivism and falsificationism -- 11. Linguistic philosophy -- 12. …”
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Febris erotica : lovesickness in the Russian literary imagination by Sobol, Valeria

Table of Contents: “…-- An ordinary story : Goncharov's romantic patients -- The "question of the soul" in the age of positivism -- What is to be done about a lovesick woman? …”
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Aldous Huxley: The Political Thought of a Man of Letters. by Maurini, Alessan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; 1 Beyond Marxism and Positivism; 2 Huxley's Political Thinking; 3 Mass Society and Fordism; 4 The Totalitarian Elite; 5 Democratic Elitism for Peace and Democracy; 6 Political Thought between Utopia and Dystopia; 7 Huxley within Contemporary Political Thought; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; About the Author…”
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Cultural Psychology and Qualitative Methodology : Theoretical and Empirical Considerations by Ratner, Carl

Table of Contents: “…Sociopolitical Underpinnings of Positivism and Qualitative Cultural Psychological Methodology -- References.…”
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Critical theory, politics and society : an introduction by Stirk, Peter M. R., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…The Failure of Metaphysics -- 4. The Critique of Positivism -- 5. The Attractions and Limits of Psychology -- 6. …”
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Doing health anthropology : research methods for community assessment and change by Kiefer, Christie W.

Table of Contents: “…Why anthropology? -- Positivism : the laboratory theory of knowledge -- The naturalistic theory of knowledge : anthropology -- The study of real people in natural situations -- Designing a research project -- The researcher in and beyond the community -- Collecting data -- Analyzing data -- The theory of needs -- Community change : the theory of hope -- Action anthropology -- Teaching health anthropology -- Professionalism in naturalistic social science.…”
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Philosophical analysis in the twentieth century. / Dawn of analysis by Soames, Scott

Table of Contents: “…MOORE ON ETHICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS; PART TWO: BERTRAND RUSSELL ON LOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; PART THREE: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN'S TRACTATUS; PART FOUR: LOGICAL POSITIVISM, EMOTIVISM, AND ETHICS; PART FIVE: THE POST-POSITIVIST PERSPECTIVE OF THE EARLY W.V. …”
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