Roy Bhaskar is an independent scholar and founder of the critical realist movement in the social sciences. He is the author of several books, including The Possibility of Naturalism, Reclaiming Reality, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom and Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom.
Introduction Chapter 1. Philosophy and Scientific Realism 1. Two Sides o f
'Knowledge' 2. Three Traditions in the Philosophy of Science 3. The
Transcendental Analysis of Experience A. The Analysis of Perception B. The
Analysis of Experimental Activity 4. The Status of Ontology and Its
Dissolution in Classical Philosophy 5. Ontology Vindicated and The Real
Basis of Causal Laws 6. A Sketch of a Critique of Empirical Realism Chapter
2. Actualism and the Concept of a Closure 1. Introduction: On the Actuality
of the Causal Connection 2. Regularity Determinism and the Quest for a
Closure 3. The Classical Paradigm of Action 4. Actualism and Transcendental
Realism: The Interpretation of Normic Statements 5. Autonomy and Reduction
6. Explanation in Open Systems
