ABSTRACT
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
part |186 pages
Transcendental Realism and Science
part |196 pages
Critical Naturalism and Social Science
chapter |16 pages
Realism and Social Science
Some comments on Roy Bhaskar's ‘The Possibility of Naturalism'
part |176 pages
The Theory of Explanator Critiques
chapter |30 pages
Neutrality in the Social Sciences
On Bhaskar's argument for an essential emancipatory impulse in social science
part |181 pages
Dialectic and Dialectical Critical Realism
