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Contributions to social ontology /

Recent years have seen a dramatic re-emergence of interest in ontology. From philosophy and social sciences to artificial intelligence and computer science, ontology is gaining interdisciplinary influence as a popular tool for applied research. Contributions to Social Ontology focuses specifically o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lawson, Clive (Editor ), Latsis, John, 1977- (Editor ), Martins, Nuno (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Colección:Routledge studies in critical realism ; 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Ontology, philosophy, and the social sciences / John Latsis, Clive Lawson, Nuno Martins
  • Ontology and social theory: The ontological status of subjectivity : the missing link between structure and agency / Margaret S. Archer. Technology, technological determinism and the transformational model of social activity / Clive Lawson. Ontological theorising and the assumptions issue in economics / Stephen Pratten. Wittgenstein and the ontology of the social : some Kripkean reflections on Bourdieu's 'theory of practice' / Lorenzo Bernasconi-Kohn. Deducing natural necessity from purposive activity : the scientific realist logic of Habermas' theory of communicative action and Luhmann's systems theory / Margaret Moussa. 'Under-labouring' for ethics : Lukács's critical ontology / Mário Duayer and João Leonardo Medeiros
  • Ontology and philosophy: Quine and the ontological turn in economics / John Latsis. Tracking down the transcendental argument and the synthetic a priori : chasing fairies or serious ontological business? / David Tyfield. Re-examining Bhaskar's three ontological domains : the lessons from emergence / Dave Elder-Vass. Real, invented, or applied? : some reflections on scientific objectivity and social ontology / Eleonora Montuschi. Theorising ontology / Roy Bhaskar
  • Ontology and applied research: Freedom, possibility and ontology : rethinking the problem of 'competitive ascent' in the Caribbean / Patricia Northover and Michaeline Crichlow. On the ontology of international norm diffusion / Lynn Savery. Realist social theorising and the emergence of state educational systems / Tone Skinningsrud. The educational limits of critical realism? : emancipation and rational agency in the compulsory years of schooling / Brad Shipway. Economics and autism : why the drive towards closure? / John Lawson. Applying critical realism : re-conceptualising the emergent early music performer labour market / Nicholas Wilson.