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Auguste Comte (see Andreski 1974) is widely credited as the originator of positivism, and is still worth reading, if only to see that he was a much more sophisticated thinker than he is often made out to be.
Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method (1895, 1982) presents a very powerful case for a naturalistic approach to social science. Ayer (1946) is a classic statement of the logical positivist philosophy, while Hempel (1966) is still unsurpassed as a clear, introductory statement of a more moderate, empiricist view of natural science. Good critical accounts of empiricist philosophy of science are to be found in Harre (1970, 1972), Keat and Urry (1975), Benton (1977, 2015), NewtonSmith (1981) and Chalmers (1999). See also Moses and Knutsen (2012) and Sanders in Lowndes, March and Stoker (2018).
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