The doctrine of legal positivism may seem to us to be an irrelevant, abstruse philosophical exercise confined to the ivory towers of academia. The reality, however, is that it makes a huge impact on ...

The rise and fall of logical positivism is the most spectacular story of 20 th century philosophy. Logical positivism was wildly successful, and some of its key ideas became widely accepted as ...

John Yoo responds to an article by UC Berkeley’s Steve Hayward on his substack Political Questions. Readers of Political Questions may know that Steve and I have been in Italy, where we participated ...

The keynote address from the "Gitlow v. New York at 100" symposium, held this year at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; other papers from that symposium will be ...

THE simple solution to philosophical problems, which those philosophers who describe themselves as logical positivists have propounded in the last ten years, are to-day coming under attack. In the ...

In criminology, positivism shifted focus away from moral blame and toward scientific explanations, examining how biology, psychology, and environment shape criminal behavior. White House draws out ...

THIS pamphlet, by the veteran leader of Italian posi tivism, is issued in translation by a devoted admirer and disciple who wishes to find an English helper in the translation and publication of other ...

Among various theories applicable for law-making, the ideas of naturalism and positivism are often referred to. The concept of natural law is probably as ancient as 2500-year-old. According to the ...