Critical realism : essential readings

Author(s)

• Archer, Margaret Scotford

Bibliographic Information

Critical realism : essential readings

edited by Margaret Archer ... [et al.]

（Critical realism -- interventions）

Routledge, 1998

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780415196314

Description

This book presents essential key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism. It explores transcendental realist philosophy of science, critical naturalist philosophy of social science, the theory of explanatory critique, and dialectic critique.

Table of Contents

Part I: Transcendental realism and science 1. Introduction: Basic texts and developments 2. Philosophy and scientific realism 3. The logic of scientific discovery 4. Conceptual and natural necessity 5. Abstraction: A realist interpretation 6. Economic science without experimentation / Abstraction Part II: Critical naturalism and social science 7. Introduction: Realism in the social sciences 8. Societies 9. Stratified explanation and Marx's conception of history 10. Realism and social science 11. Realism and social science: Some comments on Roy Bhaskar's 'The Possibility of Naturalism' 12. A realist social science 13. Four concepts of social structure 14. Realism and morphogenesis Part III: The theory of explanatory critiques 15. Introduction: Explanatory critiques 16. Reason as dialectic: Science, social science and socialist science 17. Facts and values: Theory and practice / Reason and the dialectic of human emancipation / Depth, rationality and change 18. Explanation and emancipation 19. Neutrality in the social sciences: On Bhaskar's argument for an essential emancipatory impulse in social science 20. Addressing the cultural system 21. The praxiology of legal judgement Part IV: Dialectic and dialectical critical realism 22. Introduction: Dialectic and dialectical critical realism 23. Critical realism and dialectic 24. Dialectical critical realism and ethics 25. The power of negative thinking 26. Realism and formalism in ethics 27. The limits of justice: Finding fault in the criminal law 28. Between structure and difference: Law's relationality

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415196321

Description

Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism. It explores the following themes: * transcendental realist * the theory of explanatory critique * dialectics * Bhaskar's critical naturalist philosophy of science.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Transcendental Realism and Science
• Chapter 1 Introduction, Roy Bhaskar, Tony Lawson
• Chapter 2 Philosophy and Scientific Realism Source: A Realist Theory of Science, London: Verso, 1997, chap. 1, pp. 21-62., Roy Bhaskar
• Chapter 3 The Logic of Scientific Discovery Source: A Realist Theory of Science, London: Verso, 1997, chap. 3, sections 3.1-3.3, pp. 143-84, and sections 3.5 and 3.6, pp. 199-228., Roy Bhaskar
• Chapter 4 Conceptual and Natural Necessity Source: Causal Powers: A Theory of Natural Necessity, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1975, chap. 1, Sections II-VI, pp. 8-26., R. Harre, E.H. Madden
• Chapter 5 Abstraction Source: Radical Philosophy, 1981, Summer, pp. 6-15., Andrew Sayer
• Chapter 6 Economic Science Without Experimentation Source: Economics and Reality, London: Routledge, 1997, chaps 15 and 16, pp. 199-226 and 227-237., Tony Lawson
• Chapter 6a Abstraction
• Part 2 Critical Naturalism and Social Science
• Chapter 7 Introduction, Margaret Archer
• Chapter 8 Societies Source: The Possibility of Naturalism, chap. 2, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, 1989 (referred to as PON in this chapter)., Roy Bhaskar
• Chapter 9 Stratified Explanation and Marx's Conception of History Source: Scientific Realism and Socialist Thought, chap. 2, pp. 43-72., Andrew Collier
• Chapter 10 Realism and Social Science Source: New Philosophies of Social Science, chap. 3, pp. 44-60 (referred to in the text as NPSS)., William Outhwaite
• Chapter 11 Realism and Social Science Source: Radical Philosophy, 27, 1981, pp. 13-21., Ted Benton
• Chapter 12 A Realist Social Science Source: A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences, chap. 13, pp. 266-293 (referred to in the text as AHPSS)., Peter Manicas
• Chapter 13 Four Concepts Of Social Structure Source: Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 19, 2, 1989, pp. 195-211., Douglas V Porpora
• Chapter 14 Realism and Morphogenesis Source: Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach, chap. 5, pp. 135-161 (referred to in the text as RST)., Margaret Archer
• Part 3 The Theory of Explanator Critiques
• Chapter 15 Introduction, Roy Bhaskar, Andrew Collier
• Chapter 16 Reason as Dialectic Source: Radical Philosophy, 15, 1976, pp. 2-7., Roy Edgley
• Chapter 17 Facts and Values Source: Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, London: Verso, 1986, chap. 2, sections 5, 6 and 7, pp. 169-211, Roy Bhaskar
• Chapter 17a Reason and the Dialectic of Human Emancipation
• Chapter 17b Depth, Rationality and Change
• Chapter 18 Explanation and Emancipation Source: Critical Realism, London: Verso, 1994, chap. 6, pp. 169-204., Andrew Collier
• Chapter 19 Neutrality in the Social Sciences Source: Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 27, 2/3, 1997, pp. 213-41., Hugh Lacey
• Chapter 20 Addressing the Cultural System Source: Culture and Agency, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, chap. 5, pp. 103-42., Margaret Archer
• Chapter 21 The Praxiology of Legal JudgementSource'. Crime, Reason and History, London: Butterworths, 1993, pp. 221-60, Alan Nome
• Part 4 Dialectic and Dialectical Critical Realism
• Chapter 22 Introduction, Roy Bhaskar, Alan Norrie
• Chapter 23 Critical Realism and DialecticSource: Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, London: Verso, 1993, chapters 1.5-1.7, 2.1, 2.2 and 2.7., Roy Bhaskar
• Chapter 23a Dialectic
• Chapter 24 Dialectical Critical Realism and EthicsSource: Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, London: Verso, 1993, chapters 3.1, 3.2, 3.7 and 3.10., Roy Bhaskar
• Chapter 25 The Power of Negative ThinkingSource: Radical Philosophy, 69, January-February 1995, pp. 36-9., Andrew Collier
• Chapter 26 Realism and Formalism in Ethics, Andrew Collier
• Chapter 27 The Limits of JusticeSource: Modern Law Review, 59, 1996, pp. 540-56., Alan Norrie
• Chapter 28 Between Structure and Difference Source: The Emergence of Law Through Economy, Politics and Culture, 1997, vol. 1, chap. 2, Ofiati: International Institute for the Sociology of Law., Alan Norrie

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Details

• NCID: BA38553673
• ISBN:
  • 9780415196314
  • 0415196329
• LCCN: 98018861
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxiv, 756 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B835
  • DC21 : 149/.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Criticial realism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA38917485