A Refutation of Positivism in Philosophy of Mind Taylor & Francis Ltd

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.The book focuses on Descartes, Leibniz, British Empiricism ...