| Description |
vii, 339 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
General Introduction: After Postmodernism: The Millennium / Garry Potter and Jose Lopez -- 1. How to Change Reality: Story vs. Structure - A Debate between / Rom Harre and Roy Bhaskar -- 2. The Intersecting Paths of Critical Relations: Multiple Realities, the Inner Planet and Three Dimensional Worlds / Philip Hodgkiss -- 3. Reading Foucault as a Realist / Frank Pearce and Tony Woodiwiss -- 4. The Ethogenics of Agency and Structure: A Metaphysical Problem / Charles R. Varela -- 5. Where is Social Structure? / John Scott -- 6. Metaphors of Social Complexity / Jose Lopez -- 7. Sociology and Epistemology / Jean Bricmont -- 8. Critical Realism and Quantum Mechanics: Some Introductory Bearings / Christopher Norris -- 9. Why are Sociologists Neturephobes? / Ted Benton -- 10. Critical Realism and Political Ecology / Tim Forsyth -- 11. Keeping it Real: A Critique of Postmodern Theories of Cyberspace / Pam Higham -- 12. Is Computing Really For Women? A Critical Realist Approach to Gender Issues In Computing / Sue Clegg -- 13. Truth in Fiction, Science and Criticism / Garry Potter -- 14. Reconsidering Literary Interpretation / Philip Tew -- 15. Vaporising the Real: Artificially, Millenial Anxiety and the 'End of History' / Francis Barker -- 16. Rorty on Pragmaticism, Liberalism and the Self / Justin Cruikshank -- 17. Realism and Research, Philosophy and Poverty Politics: the Example of Smoking / David Ford -- 18. Descartes' Individualistic Epistemology - A Critique / Allison Assiter -- 19. Social Movements and Science: The Question of Plural Knowledge Systems / Jenneth Parker -- 20. Do Realists Run Regressions? / Douglas V. Porpora -- 21. Marx, Hegel and the Specificity of the Political / Robert Fine -- 22. Critical Realism in Light of Marx's Process of Abstraction / Bertell Ollman -- 23. On Real and Nominal Absences / Andrew Collier |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-324) and index |
| Subject |
Realism.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Sociology.
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Critical realism.
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| Author |
Potter, Garry, 1955-
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López, José, 1966-
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| LC no. |
00002217 |
| ISBN |
0485006294 paperback |
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0485004402 |
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0485004216 |
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0485006170 paperback |
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