As in earlier novels and essays, behavioralist theory is contrasted with the author's own existential outlook, scientific positivism with a more old-fashioned brand of Christian humanism.

Kinsey's "was not an original mind," he claims; "his ideas reflected little more than the materialistic, mechanistic concepts of scientific positivism."

A realist philosophical discourse opposed to all kinds of nominalism, relativism, scientific positivism, and post-modernism.

It questioned processualism's appeals to scientific positivism and impartiality, and emphasised the importance of a more self-critical theoretical reflexivity.

The main battleground, however, was the field of education and the academic freedom of Belgian universities, where rationalism and scientific positivism were gaining ground.

In that respect, he agreed with the scientific positivism of liberal scholarship.

American culture's shift toward scientific positivism during this era was reflected in the Student Volunteer Movement's emphasis on elaborate statistical evidence of its work.

Finally, they brought ideas, such as scientific positivism, and endorsed Freemasonry, which was to have a lasting influence on Mexican thought.

But they also wondered, sometimes in awe, sometimes in confusion, at the scientific positivism evinced by earlier generations.

Some leading anthropologists disagree, and consider anthropological holism to be an artifact from 19th century social evolutionary thought that inappropriately imposes scientific positivism upon cultural anthropology.