Critical Realism: Essential Readings

By Alan Norrie, Margaret Scotford Archer, Roy Bhaskar, et al.

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415196329
• ISBN13: 9780415196321
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 780 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"