Book description
Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism.It explores the following themes:
* transcendental realist
* the theory of explanatory critique
* dialectics
* Bhaskar's critical naturalist philosophy of science.
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- CRITICAL REALISM
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- General introduction
- PART I Transcendental realism and science
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PART II Critical naturalism and social science
- 7 Introduction: Realism in the social sciences
- 8 Societies
- 9 Stratified explanation and Marx's conception of history
- 10 Realism and social science
- 11 Realism and social science: Some comments on Roy Bhaskar’s ‘The Possibility of Naturalism’
- 12 A realist social science
- 13 Four concepts of social structure
- 14 Realism and morphogenesis
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PART III The theory of explanatory critiques
- 15 Introduction: Explanatory critiques
- 16 Reason as dialectic: Science, social science and socialist science
- 17 Facts and values: Theory and practice / Reason and the dialectic of human emancipation / Depth, rationality and change
- 18 Explanation and emancipation
- 19 Neutrality in the social sciences: On Bhaskar's argument for an essential emancipatory impulse in social science
- 20 Addressing the cultural system
- 21 The praxiology of legal judgement
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PART IV Dialectic and dialectical critical realism
- 22 Introduction: Dialectic and dialectical critical realism
- 23 Critical realism and dialectic
- 24 Dialectical critical realism and ethics
- 25 The power of negative thinking
- 26 Realism and formalism in ethics
- 27 The limits of justice: Finding fault in the criminal law
- 28 Between structure and difference: Law's relationality
- Index
Product information
- Title: Critical Realism
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136287251
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