TY - BOOK AU - Archer,Margaret Scotford TI - Critical realism: essential readings T2 - Critical realism--interventions SN - 0415196329 AV - B835. C75 1998 U1 - 149.2 22 PY - 1998/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Critical realism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; General introduction --; Pt. I; Transcendental realism and science --; 1; Introduction: Basic texts and developments --; 2; Philosophy and scientific realism --; 3; The logic of scientific discovery --; 4; Conceptual and natural necessity --; 5; Abstraction: A realist interpretation --; 6; Economic science without experimentation / Abstraction --; Pt. II; Critical naturalism and social science --; 7; Introduction: Realism in the social sciences --; 8; Societies --; 9; Stratified explanation and Marx's conception of history --; 10; Realism and social science --; 11; Realism and social science: Some comments on Roy Bhaskar's 'The Possibility of Naturalism' --; 12; A realist social science --; 13; Four concepts of social structure --; 14; Realism and morphogenesis --; Pt. III; The theory of explanatory critiques --; 15; Introduction: Explanatory critiques --; 16; Reason as dialectic: Science, social science and socialist science --; 17; Facts and values: Theory and practice / Reason and the dialectic of human emancipation / Depth, rationality and change --; 18; Explanation and emancipation --; 19; Neutrality in the social sciences: On Bhaskar's argument for an essential emancipatory impulse in social science --; 20; Addressing the cultural system --; 21; The praxiology of legal judgement --; Pt. IV; Dialectic and dialectical critical realism --; 22; Introduction: Dialectic and dialectical critical realism --; 23; Critical realism and dialectic --; 24; Dialectical critical realism and ethics --; 25; The power of negative thinking --; 26; Realism and formalism in ethics --; 27; The limits of justice: Finding fault in the criminal law --; 28; Between structure and difference: Law's relationality --; Index ER -