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Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation (Hardcover)
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Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Texts in Critical Realism Routledge Critical Realism
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Following on from Roy Bhaskar's first two books, A Realist Theory
of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism
and Human Emancipation, establishes the conception of social
science as explanatory-and thence emancipatory-critique. Scientific
Realism and Human Emancipation starts from an assessment of the
impasse of contemporary accounts of science as stemming from an
incomplete critique of positivism. It then proceeds to a systematic
exposition of scientific realism in the form of transcendental
realism, highlighting a conception of science as explanatory of a
structured, differentiated and changing world. Turning to the
social domain, the book argues for a view of the social order as
conditioned by, and emergent from, nature. Advocating a critical
naturalism, the author shows how the transformational model of
social activity together with the conception of social science as
explanatory critique which it entails, resolves the divisions and
dualisms besetting orthodox social and normative theory: between
society and the individual, structure and agency, meaning and
behavior, mind and body, reason and cause, fact and value, and
theory and practice. The book then goes on to discuss the
emancipatory implications of social science and sketches the nature
of the depth investigation characteristically entailed. In the
highly innovative third part of the book Roy Bhaskar completes his
critique of positivism by developing a theory of philosophical
discourse and ideology, on the basis of the transcendental realism
and critical naturalism already developed, showing how positivism
functions as a restrictive ideology of and for science and other
social practices.
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Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Classical Texts in Critical Realism Routledge Critical Realism |
Release date: |
2009 |
First published: |
2009 |
Authors: |
Roy Bhaskar
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
360 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-49015-3 |
Categories: |
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Humanities >
Philosophy >
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LSN: |
0-415-49015-4 |
Barcode: |
9780415490153 |
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