| Edition |
Fourth edition. |
| Description |
xlii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Classical texts in critical realism |
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Classical texts in critical realism.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-188) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Transcendental realism and the problem of naturalism. The problem of naturalism -- How is a philosophy of science possible? Experiment and application : the intransitive dimension -- Discovery and development : the transitive dimension The social sciences and philosophy -- Towards a new critical naturalism -- Societies. Against individualism -- On the society/person connection -- Some emergent properties of social systems -- On the limits of naturalism -- Social science as critique : facts, values and theories -- Agency. Agents, reasons and causes I : objections to naturalism -- Agents, reasons and causes II : naturalism vindicated -- Emergent powers and materialism I : against reductionism -- Emergent powers and materialism II : in defence of transcategorial causality -- Rational explanation -- Philosophies. Metaphilosophical preliminaries -- The critique of the positivist tradition : explanation, prediction and confirmation -- The critique of the hermeneutical tradition I : concepts, reasons and rules -- The critique of the hermeneutical tradition II : explanation and understanding -- The hermeneutical circle and the logic of emanicipation. |
| Subject |
Naturalism.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Critical realism.
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Critical realism. (OCoLC)fst00883688
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Naturalism. (OCoLC)fst01034534
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Science -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01108336
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01122940
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| ISBN |
1138798894 (hbk.) |
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9781138798892 (hbk.) |
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1138798886 (pbk.) |
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9781138798885 (pbk.) |
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1134639392 |
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9781134639397 |
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9781134639427 |
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9781134639380 |
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9781134639410 |
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9781134639373 |
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9781134639366 |
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131762985X |
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9781317629856 |
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1317629841 |
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9781317629849 |
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9781315756332 (ebk) |
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