A Refutation of Positivism in Philosophy of Mind: Thinking, Reality, and Language

by Pieter A.M. Seuren

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter. In particular, it is unfit for linguistics and cognitive science, where it is ultimately self-destructive, since it fails to account for causality, while the mind, the primary object of research of the human sciences, cannot be understood unless considered to be an autonomous causal force.　

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032493682
• ISBN13: 9781032493688
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"