4 décembre 2019
Marc Jacquinet, « A note on Comte and positivism », Critique du management, ID : 10670/1.gappya
(Methodos XIV) Marc Jacquinet Auguste Comte’s positivism presents interesting features for the history of economic thought. First, his conception of science, under the heading of positivism or positive philosophy is more ambiguous than it is usually thought, even if we abstract the vagaries of his political and spiritual concerns, judged by John Stuart Mill as pitiable (Mill 1865). Second, his conception of science is based on a specific reading of the natural sciences: physics, but also...