Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 The philosophy of social research -- Chapter 2 The positivist orthodoxy -- Chapter 3 Positivism and the language of social research -- Chapter 4 Positivism and the conception of science -- Chapter 5 The interpretative alternative -- Chapter 6 Lay versus scientific conceptions -- Chapter 7 Language, reality and rationality -- Chapter 8 The evaporation of meaning -- Chapter 9 Conclusion…”

Table of Contents: “…Building and causing -- 3. Positivism -- 4. Pragmatism -- 5. Incommensurability -- 6. …”

Table of Contents: “…H. de Mendoza); L. ZEA, El positivism y la circunstancia Mexicana (P. G. Bruno), H. …”

Table of Contents: “…1: The locus of philosophy of science. 2: Logical positivism: the received view inphilosophy ofscience. 3: Challenges to logical positivism. 4: Post-positivist philosophy of science. 5: theory reduction as a model for relating disciplines. 6: An alternative model for integrating disciplines…”

Table of Contents: “…1: Ernest Mach and the fortunes of positivism. 2: More on Mach and Einstein. 3: Quanta, relativity and rhetoric. 4: On the Jefferrsonian research program. 5: The controversy over the End of Science. 6: The anti-science phenomenon.…”

Table of Contents: “…Deductivism : plain and with simplicity. The new positivism. Anti-Bayes. The issue of realism. Learning from anti-realism. …”

Table of Contents: “…Verstellung ("misplacement") : completions of immanence -- With my hand over my heart, looking you right in the eyes, I promise myself to you : reflections on Derrida's interpretation of Husserl -- "For the creation waits with eager longing for the revelation" : from the deconstruction of metaphysics to the deconstruction of Christianity in Derrida -- Eschatology and positivism : the critique of phenomenology in Derrida and Foucault -- Un écart infime (part I) : Foucault's critique of the concept of lived-experience (vécu) -- Un écart infime (part II) : Merleau-Ponty's "mixturism" -- Noli me tangere : a fragment on vision in Merleau-Ponty -- Un écart infime (part III) : the blind spot in Foucault -- "This is what we must not do" : the question of death in Merleau-Ponty -- Metaphysics and powerlessness : an introduction to the concept of life-ism -- Conclusion: the followers.…”

Table of Contents: “…Humean Empiricism. Logicism. Logical positivism, the Vienna Circle. Logical Empiricism. Confirmation. …”