The Formation of Critical Realism : A Personal Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415455022 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 248 str.

Hartwig Mervyn

Opis

This series of interviews, conducted in the form of exchanges between Roy Bhaskar - the originator of critical realism (and the later philosophy of meta-reality) - and Mervyn Hartwig, a leading commentator on critical realism, tells a riveting story of the formation and development of critical realism.

Spis treści

1 Childhood and adolescence: dialectic of alienation and wholeness (1944–1963) 2 Oxford days: carrying through the Copernican revolution in the philosophy of science (1963–1973) 3 Beyond empiricism and transcendental idealism: transcendental realism and the critique of classical modernism (1973–1975) 4 The critical realist embrace: critical naturalism (1975–1979) 5 ‘Prolegomenon to a natural history of the human species’: explanatory critique (1979–1986) 6 The axiology of freedom: dialectical critical realism (1986–1994) 7 The spiritual turn: transcendental dialectical critical realism (1994–2000) 8 The philosophy of unity-in-difference: meta-Reality (2000–2002) 9 Where do we go from here?: applied critical realism and beyond (2002– )

O autorze

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, Reclaiming Reality 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.

Mervyn Hartwig is a leading commentator on critical realism, and the editor of and principal contributor to the recently published Dictionary of Critical Realism.