Roy Bhaskar

Reclaiming Reality

A Critical Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents an introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism. This book contains critiques of some of the most important schools of thought and thinkers and advances novel and convincing resolutions of many traditional philosophical problems.

Produktdetails

• Classical Texts in Critical Realism Routledge Critical Realism
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU49628
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780415454933
• ISBN-10: 041545493X
• Artikelnr.: 23800846

Autorenporträt

Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism, and the author of many acclaimed and influential works including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation and Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom. He is an editor of the recently published Critical Realism: Essential Readings and is currently chair of the Centre for Critical Realism.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Critical Realism, Social Relations and Arguing for Socialism 2. Realism in the Natural Sciences 3. Feyerabend and Bachelard: Two Philosophies of Science 4. Philiosophies as Ideologies of Science: A Contribution to the Critique of Positivism 5. On the Possibility of Social Scientific Knowledge and the Limits of Naturalism 6. Scientific Explanation and Human Emancipation 7. Dialectics, Materialism and Theory of Knowledge 8. Rorty, Realism and the Idea of Freedom 9. What is Critical Realism? Notes

Rezensionen

"Bhaskar has provided what is, arguably, the most comprehensive, the most rigorous and the best available account of the sciences, both natural and social." -Gerry Webster (Biology Forum 1989)

"Breathtaking in the scope and power of its immanent critique of contemporary philosophy." -Andrew Sayer (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 1990)

"Bhaskar has fashioned a wholly new context for argumentation about social ontology . . . His work merits enormous critical attention in all the human sciences." -John Shotter (History of the Human Sciences 1991)

"Contains perhaps the finest brief historical and methodological assessment in English of the major issues in Marx's philosophy." -Michael Sprinker (New Left Review 1992)