title: [A historical-epistemological perspective of the ontological problem of Positivism. Positivism and psychiatry].
abstract: The present article reviews epistemological problems related to the philosophical and scientific current known as Positivism. The revision begins with the study of the historical period during which the Logical Positivism emerges (early in the decade of 1920); and finishes with the analysis of its influence on psychiatry and its relation with other epistemological currents in the same period. The article reviews the historical and epistemological outlook at te beginning of the XX th century, when the problem of language became ontologically outstanding. The question of language remains important in the present discussions.
authors.affiliation: Departmento Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argenitna. hectorbertera@yahoo.com.ar
authors.forename: Juan Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Fantin
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D019359:Knowledge; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry