The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780415198738 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 194 str.

Roy Bhaskar; Andrew Collier

Opis

This text is one of the cornerstones of the critical realist position, which is now widely seen as offering a viable alternative to move positivism and post modernism. This revised edition includes a new foreword. A Realist Theory of Science (originally 1975, reprinted Verso, 1996).

Spis treści

Foreword to the Third Edition Chapter 1 Transcendental Realism and the Problem of Naturalism Chapter 2 Societies Chapter 3 Agency Chapter 4 Philosophies

O autorze

Roy Bhaskar is the founder of the critical realist movement. He has taught both philosophy and social science as the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Sussex, as well as holding research fellowships at Linacre College, Oxford and City University, London. He is currently the Chair of the Centre for Critical Realism, London.