Critical realism : essential readings /
Critical realism : essential readings /
edited by Margaret Archer [and others].
- xxiv, 756 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Critical realism--interventions .
- Critical realism--interventions. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General introduction -- Transcendental realism and science -- Introduction: Basic texts and developments -- Philosophy and scientific realism -- The logic of scientific discovery -- Conceptual and natural necessity -- Abstraction: A realist interpretation -- Economic science without experimentation / Abstraction -- Critical naturalism and social science -- Introduction: Realism in the social sciences -- Societies -- Stratified explanation and Marx's conception of history -- Realism and social science -- Realism and social science: Some comments on Roy Bhaskar's 'The Possibility of Naturalism' -- A realist social science -- Four concepts of social structure -- Realism and morphogenesis -- The theory of explanatory critiques -- Introduction: Explanatory critiques -- Reason as dialectic: Science, social science and socialist science -- Facts and values: Theory and practice / Reason and the dialectic of human emancipation / Depth, rationality and change -- Explanation and emancipation -- Neutrality in the social sciences: On Bhaskar's argument for an essential emancipatory impulse in social science -- Addressing the cultural system -- The praxiology of legal judgement -- Dialectic and dialectical critical realism -- Introduction: Dialectic and dialectical critical realism -- Critical realism and dialectic -- Dialectical critical realism and ethics -- The power of negative thinking -- Realism and formalism in ethics -- The limits of justice: Finding fault in the criminal law -- Between structure and difference: Law's relationality -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. II. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Pt. III. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Pt. IV. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.
0415196329 9780415196321 0415196310 9780415196314
98018861
Critical realism
B835. / C75 1998
149.2
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General introduction -- Transcendental realism and science -- Introduction: Basic texts and developments -- Philosophy and scientific realism -- The logic of scientific discovery -- Conceptual and natural necessity -- Abstraction: A realist interpretation -- Economic science without experimentation / Abstraction -- Critical naturalism and social science -- Introduction: Realism in the social sciences -- Societies -- Stratified explanation and Marx's conception of history -- Realism and social science -- Realism and social science: Some comments on Roy Bhaskar's 'The Possibility of Naturalism' -- A realist social science -- Four concepts of social structure -- Realism and morphogenesis -- The theory of explanatory critiques -- Introduction: Explanatory critiques -- Reason as dialectic: Science, social science and socialist science -- Facts and values: Theory and practice / Reason and the dialectic of human emancipation / Depth, rationality and change -- Explanation and emancipation -- Neutrality in the social sciences: On Bhaskar's argument for an essential emancipatory impulse in social science -- Addressing the cultural system -- The praxiology of legal judgement -- Dialectic and dialectical critical realism -- Introduction: Dialectic and dialectical critical realism -- Critical realism and dialectic -- Dialectical critical realism and ethics -- The power of negative thinking -- Realism and formalism in ethics -- The limits of justice: Finding fault in the criminal law -- Between structure and difference: Law's relationality -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. II. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Pt. III. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Pt. IV. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.
0415196329 9780415196321 0415196310 9780415196314
98018861
Critical realism
B835. / C75 1998
149.2