Roy Bhaskar
Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences
Roy Bhaskar
Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences
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Written as a DPhil thesis when Bhaskar was in his mid-twenties, Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences brilliantly launches a reconceptualization of the natural world in transcendental realist terms, 'turning Kant around using his own method', and explores its implications for social science in the course of carrying th
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Written as a DPhil thesis when Bhaskar was in his mid-twenties, Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences brilliantly launches a reconceptualization of the natural world in transcendental realist terms, 'turning Kant around using his own method', and explores its implications for social science in the course of carrying th
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- Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 300
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
- Gewicht: 426g
- ISBN-13: 9780367884673
- ISBN-10: 0367884674
- Artikelnr.: 58441354
- Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 300
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
- Gewicht: 426g
- ISBN-13: 9780367884673
- ISBN-10: 0367884674
- Artikelnr.: 58441354
Roy Bhaskar (1944-2014) was the originator of the philosophy of critical realism and the author of many acclaimed and influential works, including A Realist Theory of Science; The Possibility of Naturalism; Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom; The Philosophy of MetaReality; Enlightened Common Sense and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism. Mervyn Hartwig is founding editor (retired) of Journal of Critical Realism and editor and principal author of Dictionary of Critical Realism.
List of Diagrams
List of Tables
Abbreviations and Symbols
Author's Acknowledgements
Editor's Preface
Editor's Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. On the Conditions of Empirical Description
1.1 Speech acts
1.2 Meaning
1.3 Propositions and directives
1.4 Propositions and statements
1.5 The context of utterance
1.6 The establishment of a common context of utterance
1.7 Further remarks on the identity of an assertion
1.8 Reflexive and non-reflexive uses of 'true'
1.9 The notion of analyticity
1.10 The conditions of empirical description
1.11 Conclusion: themes
2. Empiricist theories of the production of knowledge
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The reification of facts and the autonomisation of experience
2.3 Theories of the explanation and justification of ideas
2.4 The theory of incorrigibility
2.5 The method and consequences of phenomenalism
2.6 Theories of the production of knowledge
2.7 The problem of scepticism
2.8 The problem of argument and the metatheory of science
2.9 Meaning and scientific change
2.10 The theory of falsifiability
2.11 The grounds for an asymmetry and the implications of relativism
2.12 The concept of a fact
3. Explanation in open systems
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Determinisms
3.3 The concept of a closure
3.4 Two types of autonomy in open systems
3.5 Positivism and the idea of a closure
3.6 Introductory remarks on explanation in the social sciences
3.7 The inadequacies of reductionism
3.8 On the absence of an experimental object of inquiry
3.9 On the theoretical objects of social sciences
3.10 Some properties of social systems and of
List of Tables
Abbreviations and Symbols
Author's Acknowledgements
Editor's Preface
Editor's Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. On the Conditions of Empirical Description
1.1 Speech acts
1.2 Meaning
1.3 Propositions and directives
1.4 Propositions and statements
1.5 The context of utterance
1.6 The establishment of a common context of utterance
1.7 Further remarks on the identity of an assertion
1.8 Reflexive and non-reflexive uses of 'true'
1.9 The notion of analyticity
1.10 The conditions of empirical description
1.11 Conclusion: themes
2. Empiricist theories of the production of knowledge
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The reification of facts and the autonomisation of experience
2.3 Theories of the explanation and justification of ideas
2.4 The theory of incorrigibility
2.5 The method and consequences of phenomenalism
2.6 Theories of the production of knowledge
2.7 The problem of scepticism
2.8 The problem of argument and the metatheory of science
2.9 Meaning and scientific change
2.10 The theory of falsifiability
2.11 The grounds for an asymmetry and the implications of relativism
2.12 The concept of a fact
3. Explanation in open systems
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Determinisms
3.3 The concept of a closure
3.4 Two types of autonomy in open systems
3.5 Positivism and the idea of a closure
3.6 Introductory remarks on explanation in the social sciences
3.7 The inadequacies of reductionism
3.8 On the absence of an experimental object of inquiry
3.9 On the theoretical objects of social sciences
3.10 Some properties of social systems and of
List of Diagrams
List of Tables
Abbreviations and Symbols
Author's Acknowledgements
Editor's Preface
Editor's Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. On the Conditions of Empirical Description
1.1 Speech acts
1.2 Meaning
1.3 Propositions and directives
1.4 Propositions and statements
1.5 The context of utterance
1.6 The establishment of a common context of utterance
1.7 Further remarks on the identity of an assertion
1.8 Reflexive and non-reflexive uses of 'true'
1.9 The notion of analyticity
1.10 The conditions of empirical description
1.11 Conclusion: themes
2. Empiricist theories of the production of knowledge
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The reification of facts and the autonomisation of experience
2.3 Theories of the explanation and justification of ideas
2.4 The theory of incorrigibility
2.5 The method and consequences of phenomenalism
2.6 Theories of the production of knowledge
2.7 The problem of scepticism
2.8 The problem of argument and the metatheory of science
2.9 Meaning and scientific change
2.10 The theory of falsifiability
2.11 The grounds for an asymmetry and the implications of relativism
2.12 The concept of a fact
3. Explanation in open systems
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Determinisms
3.3 The concept of a closure
3.4 Two types of autonomy in open systems
3.5 Positivism and the idea of a closure
3.6 Introductory remarks on explanation in the social sciences
3.7 The inadequacies of reductionism
3.8 On the absence of an experimental object of inquiry
3.9 On the theoretical objects of social sciences
3.10 Some properties of social systems and of
List of Tables
Abbreviations and Symbols
Author's Acknowledgements
Editor's Preface
Editor's Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. On the Conditions of Empirical Description
1.1 Speech acts
1.2 Meaning
1.3 Propositions and directives
1.4 Propositions and statements
1.5 The context of utterance
1.6 The establishment of a common context of utterance
1.7 Further remarks on the identity of an assertion
1.8 Reflexive and non-reflexive uses of 'true'
1.9 The notion of analyticity
1.10 The conditions of empirical description
1.11 Conclusion: themes
2. Empiricist theories of the production of knowledge
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The reification of facts and the autonomisation of experience
2.3 Theories of the explanation and justification of ideas
2.4 The theory of incorrigibility
2.5 The method and consequences of phenomenalism
2.6 Theories of the production of knowledge
2.7 The problem of scepticism
2.8 The problem of argument and the metatheory of science
2.9 Meaning and scientific change
2.10 The theory of falsifiability
2.11 The grounds for an asymmetry and the implications of relativism
2.12 The concept of a fact
3. Explanation in open systems
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Determinisms
3.3 The concept of a closure
3.4 Two types of autonomy in open systems
3.5 Positivism and the idea of a closure
3.6 Introductory remarks on explanation in the social sciences
3.7 The inadequacies of reductionism
3.8 On the absence of an experimental object of inquiry
3.9 On the theoretical objects of social sciences
3.10 Some properties of social systems and of