He paints a daunting picture but what stands out is his optimism, or what he prefers to call positivism. "Optimism is like being a spectator at a football match, hoping your team somehow wins," he ...

[In 1957, Professor H.L.A. Hart of Oxford University gave a lecture at Harvard, subsequently published as "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, 71 Harv. J. Rev. 593 (1958). In this talk, ...

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The positivist research paradigm (a.k.a. positivism) sustains oppression in academia by prioritizing quantifiable data while dismissing subjective experiences and social contexts in pursuit of ...