The Positive Mind
The Positive Mind

Its Development and Impact on Modernity and Postmodernity

Author(s): Evaldas Nekrašas
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: Positivism;Hume;Comte;Mill; Empirio-criticism (Mach); Conventionalism (Poincaré); Logical Empiricism (Logical Positivism); Marxism; Pragmatism; Analytic Philosophy; Carnap; Schlick; Philosophy and Science
Summary/Abstract: This book is an intellectual adventure story, a history of ideas, and a rigorous reappraisal of a major movement in philosophy, science, and culture that many have been pronounced irrelevant, passé, even dead. Yet upon closer consideration, we may find that what we have come to call positivism has profoundly influenced our thought and practice in numerous ways. It would be difficult to find another philosophy that has been more influential, and at least by that measure, we may say that positivism not only survives, but thrives. In this book the origins, problems, and dilemmas of the positive mind are discussed, its challenges are revealed, and the entire drama of its development is presented.

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