[FRA:] Positivist Dispute (Positivismusstreit) - 12

Tue Sep 23 18:49:13 BST 2008

More on Popper and Marxism:

Little, Daniel. The Scientific Marx. Minneapolis: University of 
Minnesota Press, 1986. See 
"<http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/marx-popper-little.html>Falsifiability 
and Adhocness" (pp. 177-186) in chapter 7, "Falsifiability and 
Idealism" (pp. 177-195).

Now that my uploading and running commentary of Adorno's introduction 
to The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology is completed . . .

http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/positivismusstreit/adorno-intro1.html

. . . I'm hoping that the more opaque passages and the implications 
of Adorno's interventions can be clarified and extended.

To get an overview of the whole book, as well as links to individual 
articles, see:

Title pages, contents, index of sources
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/positivismusstreit/contents.html

So far I've uploaded two contributions by Adorno. I cannot do the 
whole book, but I will scan Adorno's essay "Sociology and Empirical Research."

There is a literature even in English on the Positivismusstreit. I've 
only seen a bit of it, so I'm not sure how extensively and 
comprehensively the analysis has been.  See the section the section 
"Popper & the Frankfurt School" of my bibliography:

Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & 
American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography
http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/vienna1.html#popperfs

As I've said before, this debate says much more about the 
relationship between so-called continental philosophy and analytical 
philosophy than most of the crap published of late. But whether it's 
been analyzed adequately I couldn't tell you.

I have several more references on the Positivismusstreit not yet 
incorporated into my bibliography. Here is a list of material I've 
not had the opportunity to consult and could use whatever copies come my way.

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                   Journal articles needed: possibly online?

Hagens, Tobias Garde. "Conscience Collective or False Consciousness? 
Adorno's Critique of Durkheim's Sociology of Morals," Journal of 
Classical Sociology, vol. 6, no. 2, July 2006, pp. 215-237.

Karakayali, Nedim. "Reading Bourdieu with Adorno: The Limits of 
Critical Theory and Reflexive Sociology," Sociology, vol. 38, no. 2, 
April 2004, pp. 351-368.

Kieserling, Andre. "The Self-Description of Sociology," Soziale Welt, 
vol. 50, no. 4, 1999, pp. 395-412.

Rehg, William. "Critical Science Studies As Argumentation Theory: 
Who's Afraid of SSK?", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 30 (1): 33-48, 2000.

                   Journal articles needed: not online

Blanco, Jose Jimenez. "The Dispute Over Positivism In German 
Sociology (III): Adorno, Once Again and Dahrendorf," Revista Espanola 
de la Opinion Publica, vol. 39, 1975, pp. 143-160.

Bonss, Wolfgang. "Critical Theory as Empirical Science: 
Methodological Reflections on 'Postconventional' Empirical Research," 
Soziale Welt, vol. 34, no. 1, 1983, pp. 57-89.

D'Amico, Robert. "Karl Popper and the Frankfurt School," Telos; Issue 
86, Winter 1990-91, pp. 33-48.  Reprinted in in The Frankfurt School: 
Critical Assessments, Vol. III, edited by Jay Bernstein (London: 
Routledge, 1994), pp. 198-210.

Drake, Ryan. "Objectivity and Insecurity: Adorno and Empirical Social 
Research," Philosophy Today, Summer 2000, pp. 99-107.

Feher, Istvan M. "The "Positivismusstreit": Attempt at an 
Interpretation of a Recent Debate in the Philosophy of the Social 
Sciences," Magyar Filozofiai Szemle, vol. 5, pp. 704-731, 1980.

Fleck, Christian. "Positivism Dispute. The Frankfurt School's 
Arguments with Logical Positivism, American Pragmatism, and Critical 
Rationalism," Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und 
Sozialpsychologie, vol. 47, no. 2, June 1995, pp. 380-382.

Goldstein, Leon J. "To Question Foundations," Philosophy of the 
Social Sciences, vol. 9, no. 3, Sept. 1979, pp. 347-356.

Heller, Agnes. "The Positivism Dispute as a Turning Point in German 
Post-War Theory," New German Critique, vol. 15, fall 1978, pp. 49-56.

Jenks, Craig. "The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology," 
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 9, no. 3, Sept. 1979, pp. 377-379.

Kneer, Georg. "The Positivism Dispute. The Arguments of the Frankfurt 
School with Logical Positivism, American Pragmatism and Critical 
Rationalism," Soziologische Revue, vol. 19, no. 1, Jan. 1996, pp. 92-93.

Konig, Eckard. "The Positivist Dispute on a Value-Free Science and 
the Vindication of Norms, "Zeitschrift fur Soziologie, vol. 1, no. 3, 
July 1972, pp. 225-239.

McCarthy, Thomas A. "Responses To 'Theory And Practice'," Cultural 
Hermeneutics, 2 (Fall 75): 355-356.

Meleghy, Tamas. "Karl Popper's Logic of the Social Sciences. A 
Reconstruction within His General Epistemological Theory," Angewandte 
Sozialforschung, vol. 20 (1997), no. 3-4, pp. 95-108.

Overend, Tronn. "Interests, Objectivity and 'The Positivist Dispute' 
in Social Theory,"   Social Praxis: International and 
Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Thought, 6 (1979): 69-91.

Ray, L. J.  "Critical Theory and Positivism: Popper and the Frankfurt 
School,"  Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 9 (1979): 149-173.

Ray, L. J. Reply To Wilson's "Response To Ray's 'Critical Theory And 
Positivism: Popper And The Frankfurt School'", Philosophy of the 
Social Sciences, 12 (1982): 415-418.

Rossetti, Carlo. "Concerning "Marxism And The Social Sciences," 
Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, vol. 16, no. 2, April-June 1975, pp. 309-312.

Sukale, Michael. "Science and Value Judgment. On the Value Judgment 
Debate and the    Positivism Controversy," Soziologische Revue, vol. 
14, no. 2, April 1991, pp. 196-199.

Vogt, Klaus. "'Critical Pedagogics'-Critically Examined," Westermanns 
Padagogische Beitrage, vol. 28, no. 3, March 1976, pp. 142-151.

Wallisch-Prinz, Baerbel. "Contemporary European Sociological 
Thought," The Cornell Journal of Social Relations, vol. 13, no. 1, 
summer 1978, pp. 7-39.

Wallisch-Prinz, Baerbel.  "Critical Reason or Rational Criticism? The 
Dispute over Neopositivistic Methodology (Positivismusstreit)", 
Psychology and Social Theory, vol. 1, 1981, pp. 6-11.

Wilson, H. T. "Critical Theory's Critique of Social Science: Episodes 
in a Changing Problematic From Adorno To Habermas, Part I.", History 
of European Ideas, 7 (1986): 127-147.

Wilson, H. T. "Response to Ray's "Critical Theory and Positivism: 
Popper and the Frankfurt School", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 
11, March 1981, 45-48.

                       Articles in books needed: not online

D'Amico, Robert. "Karl Popper and the Frankfurt School" in 
<http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0648/94022726-d.html>The 
Frankfurt School: Critical Assessments, Vol. III, edited by Jay 
Bernstein (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 198-210; originally in 
Telos; Issue 86, Winter 1990-91, pp. 33-48.

Honneth, Axel. "Bisected Rationality: The Frankfurt School's Critique 
of Science" in Continental Philosophy of Science, ed. Gary Gutting 
(Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 295-309. Contents: 
<http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004016924.html>http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004016924.html
(Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy)

Apel, Karl-Otto. "Towards a Reconstruction of Critical Theory," in 
Philosophical Disputes in the Social Sciences, Brown, S. C., ed. 
(Sussex: Harvester Press, 1979.), pp.127-139.

Lessnoff, Michael. "Technique, Critique And Social Science in 
Philosophical Disputes in the Social Sciences, Brown, S. C., ed. 
(Sussex: Harvester Press, 1979.), pp. 89-116.

Papineau, David. "Lessnoff's Critique Of Critical Theory," in 
Philosophical Disputes in the Social Sciences, Brown, S. C., ed. 
(Sussex: Harvester Press, 1979.), pp.117-126.

Bubner, Rudiger. Matthews, Eric [Trans]. Essays In Hermeneutics And 
Critical Theory.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.  Don't 
know which essays pertain to Popper & the Positivist Dispute.