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Critical Realism and the Social Sciences : Heterodex Elaborations /

Critical realism is a distinct school of thought in philosophy and the social sciences that has been expanding and growing in significance over the past three decades. It offers important insights into the nature of both our social and natural world, and the nature of the social sciences by challeng...

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Otros Autores: Pearce, Frank (Editor ), Frauley, Jon, 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 1. Critical Realism and the Social Sciences: Methodological and Epistemological Preliminaries / Jon Frauley and Frank Pearce
  • 2. Bhaskar's Critical Realism: An Appreciative Introduction and a Friendly Critique / Frank Pearce
  • 3. For Realism and Anti-Realism / Sergio Sismondo
  • 4. Critical Realism and God / Garry Potter
  • 5. Rescuing Reflexivity: From Solipsism to Realism / Anthony Woodiwiss
  • 6. More than Straw Figures in Straw Houses: Toward a Revaluation of Critical Realism's Conception of Post-structuralist Theory / Richard Day
  • 7. Thinking across the Culture/Nature Divide: An Empirical Study of Issues for Critical Realism and Social Constructionism / Raymond Murphy
  • 8. Beyond Cognitive Critiques: Getting Real about Politics / Jose Julian Lopez
  • 9. Objectivity and Marxian Political Economy / Robert Albritton
  • 10. Why Is This Labour Value? Commodity-Producing Labour as a Social Kind / Howard Engelskirchen
  • 11. Relation between Marxism and Critical Realism / Hans Ehrbar
  • 12. Understanding Why Anything Matters: Needy Beings, Flourishing, and Suffering / Andrew Sayer
  • 13. Expulsion of Foucault from Governmentality Studies: Toward an Archaeological-Realist Retrieval / Jon Frauley
  • 14. From Foucault's Genealogy to Aleatory Materialism: Realism, Nominalism, and Politics / Ronjon Paul Datta
  • 15. Gadamer's Minimal Realism / Howie Chodos, Bruce Curtis, Alan Hunt and John Manwaring.