Critical Realism: The Difference it Makes

✍ Scribed by Justin Cruickshank

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism. It explores the following themes: * transcendental realist * the theory of explanatory critique * dialectics * Bhaskar's critical naturalist philosophy of science.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
The self: method and ethics......Page 28
The private life of the social agent: what difference does it make?......Page 30
Are critical realist ethics foundationalist?......Page 43
Social science and critique after the linguistic turn......Page 68
Feminism, critical realism and the linguistic turn......Page 70
Critical realism: the difference it makes, in theory......Page 88
Critical realism and scientific method in Chomsky's linguistics......Page 103
Method, politics and policy......Page 122
Underlabouring and unemployment: notes for developing a critical realist approach to the agency of the chronically unemployed......Page 124
New Labour, school effectiveness and ideological COMMITMENT......Page 141
What race means to realists......Page 162
Cultural studies: towards a realist intervention......Page 174
Political economy and globalism......Page 192
Naturalism and economics......Page 194
A critical realist approach to global political economy......Page 210
Explaining global poverty: a realist critique of the orthodox approach......Page 234
Index......Page 253