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Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
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Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
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A picture has indeed held modern Western philosophy captive, that
of the universe as a vast machine whose iron laws are best
understood as exceptionless empirical regularities which, as it
were, determine the future before it happens. This fantastic
conception commands the assent, not just of positivistically-minded
naturalists but of all the great anti-naturalists who champion a
very different view of human action as a domain of freedom 'that
somehow cheats science'. The most fundamental move in Roy Bhaskar's
system of philosophy, the germ of everything that followed, was to
reconceptualise the natural world in transcendental realist terms,
'turning Kant around using his own method'. On this account, the
universe is characterized by deep structures, mechanisms and fields
that generate the flux of phenomena, and is in open, creative and
emergent process. This completely recasts the terms of the debate
between naturalism and anti-naturalism by remedying its false
grounds and shows how philosophy can be liberated from its
anthropocentric/anthropomorphic prison and rendered consistent with
the best insights of modern natural science. There is necessity in
nature quite independent of humans, but in an open world causation
is multiple and conjunctural, the actual course of the unfolding of
being is highly contingent and the bases of human freedom can be
understood scientifically. Written as a DPhil thesis when Bhaskar
was in his mid-twenties, Empiricism and the Metatheory of the
Social Sciences brilliantly launches this reconceptualisation and
explores its implications for social science in the course of
carrying through the metatheoretical destruction of empiricism. It
will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the
development of Bhaskar's thought, in transcendental realism, and in
the critique of empiricism, more generally of the philosophical
discourse of Western modernity.
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