Habermas’s theory of knowledge-constitutive interests (initially outlined in the Introduction) is intended to challenge what he regards as the ‘false objectivism’ of positivism’s conception of science and the relationship between theory and practice. This objectivism has two related elements. First, there is the belief that the objects of scientific knowledge exist independently of the epistemo...

The article aims at presenting an overview of the main concepts in philosophical thought Zhang Shenfu, one leading intellectuals from Republican China (1912–1949). study sets out a brief summary Zhang’s intellectual achievements, and proceeds by offering more concise picture influences, developmental stages finally also central ideas thought. By general view on concrete confluences dissonances ...

The views of linguistic analysts and objectivists are explored with regard to the question of interactionism. It is argued that the admission of a logical difference between explanation by cause and explanation by motive cannot disqualify causal explanations of human action, cannot be construed as challenging the competence of science, and cannot count against interactionism. It is also argued ...

Many people believe that Objectivism is simply a movement composed of selfish, deranged, arrogant anti-environmentalists. They are right. The fact is, Objectivists care little for their fellow man and less for the facts. The staple of Objectivism is not science, but hollow pseudo-philosophic anti-intellectual claptrap and outright lies. All designed to trick well meaning people into accepting a...

After my conclusion in the previous PrimaVera working paper that objectivism does not provide a firm theoretical foundation for information management, the question probed in this chapter is whether or not subjectivism can offer a convincing alternative basis. Ultimately, the answer is negative because subjectivists rarely specifically pay attention to what is the bottom line for private and, i...

ethnic language, nationalistic attunement with Hegelianism, Neokantianism, Lebensphilosophy, phenomenology, Heideggerianism, Marxism, and postmodernism. On the other side, more objective German philosophers stay on positions where normal, scientific standards of clarity and cross-territorial intertranslatability prevail (e.g., Humboldt, Herbart, Helmholtz, Hertz, Hilbert, coming to philosophy f...