The Problem of Critical Ontology: Bhaskar Contra Kant

by Dustin McWherter and Christopher Berry-Dee

By pitting Roy Bhaskar's attempt to rehabilitate ontology in the philosophy of science against Kant's attempt to replace traditional ontology with an account of cognitive experience, this book defends the possibility of critical ontology. After an introduction to Kant's and Bhaskar's conceptions of ontology and philosophical method, it is argued that Kant's transcendental idealism cannot be defended as a non-ontological doctrine since it harbours...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137002719
• ISBN13: 9781137002716
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"