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Critical Realism
Andrew Collier
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Description for Critical Realism
Paperback. This text offers a user's guide to the philosophical work of Roy Bhaskar. The author expounds the main concepts of Bhaskar's work and defends his theory of knowledge. He explores Bhaskar's understanding of the human world and the ways in which it is studied. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JPA; PDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
The work of Roy Bhaskar has had far-reaching effects in the philosophy of science and for political and moral theories of human emancipation. It shows how to overcome the atomistic and narrowly human-centered approaches which have dominated European thought for four centuries. In this readable introduction to his work, Andrew Collier expounds and defends the main concepts of Bhaskar's philosophy.
The first part of this book looks at the philosophy of experimental science and discusses the stratification of nature, showing how biological structures are founded on chemical ones yet are not reducible to them. This paves the way, in part ... Read more
The work of Roy Bhaskar has had far-reaching effects in the philosophy of science and for political and moral theories of human emancipation. It shows how to overcome the atomistic and narrowly human-centered approaches which have dominated European thought for four centuries. In this readable introduction to his work, Andrew Collier expounds and defends the main concepts of Bhaskar's philosophy.
The first part of this book looks at the philosophy of experimental science and discusses the stratification of nature, showing how biological structures are founded on chemical ones yet are not reducible to them. This paves the way, in part ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860916024
SKU
V9780860916024
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About Andrew Collier
Andrew Collier (1944-2014) was senior lecturer on philosophy at the University of Southampton. He was the author of R.D.Laing (1977), Scientific Realism and Social Thought (1989), and Socialist Reasoning (1990). In the 1990s, Collier was a member of the Radical Philosophy journal editorial collective, where he was also a longstanding contributor.
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