Alternatives to Positivism | |
by Igor Naletov | |
CONTENTS | |
Page | |
Introduction | 7 |
CHAPTER ONE. BETWEEN SCIENCE AND METAPHYSICS | 23 |
1. Metaphysics and Anti‑Metaphysics of Positivism | 23 |
2. Metaphysics of "Critical Rationalism" | 59 |
3. "Scientific Realism." Metaphysics and Ontology | 104 |
CHAPTER TWO. SEARCH FOR OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE | 139 |
1. Positivism: Objectivity as Observability of Events | 139 |
2. Objective Knowledge and "Critical Rationalism" | 177 |
3. From Physicalism to "Scientific Materialism" | 196 |
CHAPTER THREE. DIALECTICAL BEARINGS | 245 |
1. Overcoming Hegel | 245 |
2. Marx and the Problem of Concrete Knowledge | 268 |
3. Concreteness of Materialist Dialectics | 301 |
4. Materialist Dialectics and Special Sciences | 327 |
5. Dialectics and the Integration of Science | 357 |
6. Dialectics of the Objective and the Subjective in Scientific Cognition | 390 |
Conclusion | 449 |
Name Index | 461 |
Subject Index | 465 |
Mr. Rothermel:
ReplyDeleteCould you you comment on the following question or give me a website or blog I could go to for a discussion on dialectical materialism?
Question: As I understand diamat, motion is opposition or contradiction. When progress or motion does happen must these oppositions or contradictions first be reconciled, consolidated, unified?