Positivism and Logical Empiricism (Britannica article)

Feigl, Herbert. "Positivism and Logical Empiricism." Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia. 1974.

See for a couple notable positivists (Ernst Mach is one) as critics of "the traditional mechanistic view of nature" (879), and for the philosophical basis of much of what is loosely called the "scientific" view of the world and attacked as mechanistic thinking and technophilia.