The Possibility Of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique Of The Contemporary Human Sciences (Classical Texts In Critical Realism)

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

• • Author: Roy Bhaskar
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jul 17, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 240 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1138798886
• • ISBN-13: 9781138798885