Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
Eurocentrism: a marxian critical realist critique
1st Edition
By Nick Hostettler
May 19, 2014
The political and social structures of modernity are dominated by really eurocentric forms and relations, yet the theorisation of the eurocentricity of modernity remains barely developed. At the same time, modern political and social theory is fundamentally eurocentric, yet the critique of ...
Ontology Revisited: Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy
1st Edition
By Ruth Groff
May 19, 2014
Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral as it may seem. Even the most deontological of theories connects up with an attendant set of philosophical commitments regarding what kinds of...
Sociological Realism
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Maccarini, Emmanuele Morandi, Riccardo Prandini
May 19, 2014
Sociological Realism presents a clear and updated discussion of the main tenets and issues of social theory, written by some of the top scholars within the critical realist and relational approach. It connects such approaches systematically to other strands of thought that are central in ...
The Assumption of Agency Theory
1st Edition
By Kate Forbes-Pitt
May 19, 2014
The Assumption of Agency Theory revisits the Turing Test and examines what Turing’s assessor knew. It asks important questions about how machines vis à vis humans have been characterized since Turing, and seeks to reverse the trend of looking closely at the machine by asking what humans know ...
The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview: Volume 2: Towards a Synthesis of Political Economy and Science and Technology Studies
1st Edition
By David Tyfield
May 19, 2014
Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks ...
Conversations About Reflexivity
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret S. Archer
November 11, 2013
" Reflexivity" is defined as the regular exercise of the mental ability, shared by all normal people, to consider themselves in relation to their (social) contexts and vice versa. In addition to this sociological interest, it allows us to hold idle or trivial internal conversations. Focussing fully...
Childhoods Real and Imagined: Volume 1: An introduction to critical realism and childhood studies
1st Edition
By Priscilla Alderson
May 13, 2013
"This book is unusually rewarding in that its author has pulled off the rare trick of providing deep philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to a comprehensive reconsideration of childhood. Priscilla Alderson deploys Bhaskar's 'dialectical critical realism' to excellent effect, illuminating not...
Relational Sociology: A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences
1st Edition
By Pierpaolo Donati
January 20, 2012
‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The convergence of two highly compatible versions of Critical Realism from two independent sources is a striking exception. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational...
The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview: Volume 1: Illustrations and Philosophical Preliminaries
1st Edition
By David Tyfield
November 21, 2011
Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks ...
Ecophilosophy in a World of Crisis: Critical realism and the Nordic Contributions
1st Edition
Edited
By Roy Bhaskar, Petter Naess, Karl Høyer
September 29, 2011
Building on its origins at a seminar in Oslo organized by two of the editors, this book combines classic texts of Nordic ecophilosophy and the original contributions of those influenced by this tradition to present the view that critical realism is indeed a worthy intellectual tradition to ...
The Political Economy of European Social Democracy: A Critical Realist Approach
1st Edition
By David Bailey
December 07, 2010
This book takes an in-depth look into recent developments in European social democracy. It begins by highlighting the somewhat paradoxical turn by a number of social democratic parties towards enhanced support for European integration, a move that has occurred despite the apparently ‘neoliberal’ ...
Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change: Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Roy Bhaskar, Cheryl Frank, Karl Georg Høyer, Petter Naess, Jenneth Parker
January 25, 2010
Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is a major new book addressing one of the most challenging questions of our time. Its unique standpoint is based on the recognition that effective and coherent interdisciplinarity is necessary to deal with the issue of climate change, and the multitude of ...