Critical Realism : Essential Readings.

CRITICAL REALISM EssentialReadings; Copyright; Contents; General Introduction; 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 RoyBhaskar'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 socialistscience; 17 Facts and values: Theory and practice / Reason and thedialectic of human emancipation / Depth, rationality andchange; 18 Explanation and emancipation.

19 Neutrality in the social sciences: On Bhaskar's argumentfor an essential emancipatory impulse in social science20 Addressing the cultural system; 21 The praxiology of legal judgement; PartIV: 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; Index.

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.

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