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Critical & Cultural Perspectives on Science

Science Technology & Society

Dr Helena Sheehan

the modern era: epistemologies / philosophies of science

 

 

classical empiricism

Locke / Hume

 

 

enlightenment classical rationalism

Descartes

 
   
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positivism

Comte / Mach

 

mechanistic materialism   subjective idealism

Kant / neo-kantianism

romanticism
      objective idealism

Hegel / neo-hegelianism

 
    evolutionary materialism    
¯   marxism / dialectical historical materialism

Marx / Engels / Bernal / Caudwell / Gramsci /

 

 

 

 

 

Frankfurt School

 

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logical positivism

Vienna Circle /Russell / Ayer

  pragmatism /

radical empiricism / naturalism

James / Dewey

process philosophy

Whitehead

 
¯   historicism / sociology of knowledge structuralism existentialism / phenomenology

Husserl / Heidegger

neo-positivism

Popper / Wittgenstein / Lakatos/

         
   
  neo-positivist historicism

Kuhn

critical realism   deconstruction

 primitivist anti-modernism / eco-feminism / new age / green /counter-culture

  sociology of science / Edinburgh School   sociology of science / Paris School
  post-positivism /post-modernism

Rorty / Feyerabend

    post-rationalism / post-modernism

Foucault / Derrida /