{"product_id":"scientific-realism-and-human-emancipation-classical-texts-in-critical-realism-routledge-critical-realism-9780415454957","title":"Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation Classical Texts in Critical Realism Routledge Critical Realism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing on from Roy Bhaskar's first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism,  Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, establishes the conception of social science as explanatoryand thence emancipatorycritique. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScientific Realism and Human Emancipation\u003c\/em\u003e starts from an assessment of the impasse of contemporary accounts of science as stemming from an incomplete critique of positivism. It then proceeds to a systematic exposition of scientific realism in the form of transcendental realism, highlighting a conception of science as explanatory of a structured, differentiated and changing world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurning 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, resolves th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Roy Bhaskar is one of the most original and versatile philosophers of the post-war generation, and one of the very few whose work has had a really lasting and world-wide impact.\" --William Outhwaite (Times Higher Education Supplement 1986)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Roy Bhaskar’s work stands comparison with the work of the contemporary giants of philosophy on the continent . . . a unique achievement, and it will no doubt be at the centre of discussion, both English and continental, for some time to come.\" --Roy Edgley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface, 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","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767518495063,"sku":"9780415454957","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415454957.jpg?v=1758713584","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scientific-realism-and-human-emancipation-classical-texts-in-critical-realism-routledge-critical-realism-9780415454957","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}