Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences
A picture has indeed held modern Western philosophy captive, that of the universe as a vast machine whose iron laws are best understood as exceptionless empirical regularities which, as it were, determine the future before it happens. This fantastic conception commands the assent, not just of positivistically-minded naturalists but of all the great anti-naturalists who champion a very different view of human action as a domain of freedom 'that somehow cheats science'.The most fundamental move in Roy Bhaskar's system of philosophy, the germ of everything that followed, was to reconceptualise the natural world in transcendental realist terms, '…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-04842-2
- EAN: 9781351048422
- Produktnummer: 29127634
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'400 KB
- Abbildungen: 7 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 7 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 3 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
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.
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