Roy Bhaskar

Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation

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Produktbeschreibung

In a wide-ranging survey of the minefields of contemporary philosophy and social thought, Roy Bhaskar develops his own positive and highly original theories of the nature of science and being, social science and history, and philosophical discourse and ideology. Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation starts from an assessment of the impasse of contemporary philosophy of science which stems from an incomplete critique of positivism. It then proceeds to a systematic exposition of scientific realism in the form of transcendental realism. This highlights 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, resolve the divisions besetting orthodox social and normative theory: between society and the individual, structure and agency, fact and value, and theory and practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1986
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 135mm x 202mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780860918530
• ISBN-10: 086091853X
• Artikelnr.: 70012145

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter One - Scientific Realism and the Aporias of Contemporary Philosophy
Chapter Two - Critical Naturalism and the Dialectic of Human Emancipation
Chapter Three - The Positivist Illusion: Sketch of a Philosophical Ideology at Work
Index