A name for the version of positivism developed by Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (1838-1916) and the German Richard Avenarius (1843-1896), and coming between the original positivism of Auguste Comte (1798-1857) and the later logical positivism.
Science on this view aims at the most economical description of appearances, on which predictions of further appearances can be based; but all appeal to hidden entities or causes, not only metaphysical (as for Comte) but scientific too, is banned.
The system was criticized by Vladimir I Lenin (1870-1924) in his Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908 translated by Abraham Fineberg (1947)).
Source:
E Mach, Popular Scientific Lectures (1898, German original 1894 or 1896) 186
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on A Reactionary Philosophy
- 2.2 Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Full Text of 1909 Edition (Illustrated)
- 2.3 Leninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics of Positivism: Reflections on V.I. Lenin's Book, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
- 2.4 Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
- 2.5 MATERIALISM AND EMPIRIO-CRITICISM. VOL. XIII
- 2.6 Materialism and empirio-criticism
- 2.7 Some Problems of Morphology in the Light of V. I. Lenin's Work 'Materialism and Empiriocriticism'
- 2.8 Scientific Session Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of V.I. Lenin's Book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
- 2.9 Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Illustrated and Bundled with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Library)
- 2.10 Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Notes Concerning a Reactionary Philosophy (Collected Works of V.I. Lenin, Volume XIII)
Videos
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on A Reactionary Philosophy
- Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 392 Pages - 04/01/2002 (Publication Date) - Univ Pr of the Pacific (Publisher)
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Full Text of 1909 Edition (Illustrated)
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- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (Author)
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- 397 Pages - 02/03/2013 (Publication Date)
Leninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics of Positivism: Reflections on V.I. Lenin's Book, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
- Ilyenkov, Evald Vasilyevich (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 06/01/2001 (Publication Date) - Beekman Books Inc (Publisher)
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
- Lenin, V. I. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 06/01/1970 (Publication Date) - Intl Pub (Publisher)
MATERIALISM AND EMPIRIO-CRITICISM. VOL. XIII
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- Lenin, V. I. (Author)
- 11/29/2020 (Publication Date) - International (Publisher)
Materialism and empirio-criticism
- Hardcover Book
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 397 Pages - 11/29/2020 (Publication Date) - International Publishers (Publisher)
Some Problems of Morphology in the Light of V. I. Lenin's Work 'Materialism and Empiriocriticism'
- M. G. Prives (Author)
- 11/28/1960 (Publication Date) - PN (Publisher)
Scientific Session Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of V.I. Lenin's Book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
- G. A. Yugay (Author)
- 11/28/1960 (Publication Date) - PN (Publisher)
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Illustrated and Bundled with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Library)
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- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (Author)
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Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Notes Concerning a Reactionary Philosophy (Collected Works of V.I. Lenin, Volume XIII)
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- Vladimir Ilich Lenin (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 11/29/2020 (Publication Date) - International Publishers Co., Inc. (Publisher)
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