This book provides the only detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte currently available. Apart from offering an accurate account of what Comte actually wrote, the book argues that Comte's positivism has never had greater contemporary relevance than now. Providing a lucid exposition of Comte and informed by considerable new scholarship on his work, this book will be valuable to philosophers, especially philosophers of science, a wide range of intellectual historians, and to historians of science and psychology.
This book provides the only detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte currently available. Apa...
This book provides the only detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte currently available. Apart from offering an accurate account of what Comte actually wrote, the book argues that Comte's positivism has never had greater contemporary relevance than now. Providing a lucid exposition of Comte and informed by considerable new scholarship on his work, this book will be valuable to philosophers, especially philosophers of science, a wide range of intellectual historians, and to historians of science and psychology.
This book provides the only detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte currently available. Apa...
In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. "How History Matters to Philosophy" takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts with the question of whether philosophy s past "should" matter, but Scharff argues that the very existence of the debate itself demonstrates that it already "does" matter. After an introductory review of the recent literature, he develops his case in two parts. In Part One, he shows how history...
In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the ...
In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism's notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts with the question of whether philosophy's past should matter, but Scharff argues that the very existence of the debate itself demonstrates that it already does matter. After an introductory review of the recent literature, he develops his case in two parts. In Part One, he...
In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism's notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the ...
