Positivism, Scientism and their Critics

Definitions

• Scientism (Martin Ryder)
• Scientism (Wikipedia) mirror mirror
• Scientism (The Skeptic's Dictionary)
• historicism (FreeDictionary.com)
• Scientific Method (Wikipedia)
• The Scientific Method (Answers.com)
• Methodological Naturalism (Wikipedia)

People

• Paul Feyerabend
  • Feyerabend profile (Wikipedia) mirror
• Friedrich Hayek
  • Hayek profile (Lawrence White)
  • Hayek profile (Roger W. Garrison and Israel Kirzner)
  • Hayek profile (David Henderson)
  • Hayek profile (Kelley Ross)
  • Hayek Links (Miguel Noronha)
  • Bruce Caldwell (2003) Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
    • Introduction
• Hannah Arendt
  • Arendt profile (Wikipedia)
  • Arendt profile (Encyclopedia Britannica)
  • Arendt profile (Internet Encyclopedia)
  • Arendt profile (Pegasos)
  • Arendt profile (Sibylle Duda)
  • Arendt prfile (Chris Marvin)
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
    • exerpts
  • Arendt papers (American Memory)
  • Hutcheon Hannah Arendt on the Concept of Power
  • Arendt on Thinking (Jud Evans)
  • Honan Arendt's Relationship with Heidegger
• Karl Popper
  • Popper profile
  • Popper profile (FreeDictionary.com)
  • Artigas (1997) The Ethical Roots of Karl Popper's Epistemology
  • Caldwell (2002) Popper and Hayek: Who Influenced Whom?
• Ludwig von Mises
  • Theory and History (1957)
    • Historicism
    • The Challenge of Scientism
• Eric Voegelin
  • Voegelin profile (Wikipedia) mirror
  • Federici Logophobia: Eric Voegelin on Scientism
• August Comte (1798-1857)
  • Comte profile (Wikipedia)
  • Comte profile (Steven Kries) The World of August Comte
  • Comte profile (Garth Kemerling)
  • Comte's Positivist Calendar (George Boeree)
• Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)
  • Saint-Simon biography (Economics New School)

Readings

• Bannister (1998) Behaviorism, Scientism and the Rise of The "Expert"
• Bannister (1988) Sociology and Scientism: The case of William F. Ogburn
• Beaugrande (1999) Discourse studies and ideology: On .liberalism. and .liberalisation. in three large corpora of English
• Cobern and Loving (1998) Defining "Science" in a Multicultural World: Implications for Science Education
• Dumain Positivism vs. Life Philosophy (Study Guide)
• Elzinga (1984) Scientism, Romanticism and Social Realist Images of Science
• Elzinga (1984)The Growth of Science: Romantic and Technocratice Images
• Federici (1999) Logophobia: Eric Voegelin on Scientism
• Grebowicz (1998) Philosophy as Meaningful Science: The Subject and Objective Knowledge in Husserl and Popper
• Haack (1997) Science, Scientism, and Anti-Science in the Age of Preposterism
• Haack (2003) Defending Science - Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism
  • review by Pedro Galvao pdf
• Hashimoto (2000) The Purpose and Significance of the Methodology of the Social Sciences in the Age of Scientism
• Pagnan (2003) Debate in the Age of Scientism
• Shermer (2002) The Shamans of Scientism
• Van Doan The Dialectic of Tradition and Modernity
• Salomon, Sagasti, and Sachs-Jeantet (1994) The uncertain quest: science, technology, and development
• Todorov (2003) What went wrong with the 20th Century?

May 02, 2008