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

SOURCE: Naletov, Igor [Naletov, I. Z. (Igor´ Zinov´evich)]; translated from the Russian by Vladimir Stankevich. Alternatives to Positivism. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1984. 470 pp.

Note: Original ASCII text of book can be found at http://leninist.biz/en/1984/AP470/index.txt. See also leninist.biz.

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