Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing: A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism) - Softcover

Bhaskar, Roy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415496667 ISBN 13: 9780415496667

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Interdisciplinarity and Well-Being

About this title

About the Author:

Roy Bhaskar was the originator of the philosophy of critical realism and the author of many acclaimed and influential works including A Realist Theory of Science (1975); The Possibility of Naturalism (1979); Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation (1986); Reclaiming Reality (1989); Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom (1991); Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom (1993); Reflections on Meta-Reality (2002); and From Science to Emancipation (2011).

Berth Danermark is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the School of Health Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden. He is also the Director of Doctoral Studies (and founder member) of the Swedish Institute of Disability Research.

Leigh Price is Senior Research Associate at the Environmental Learning and Research Centre, Rhodes University, South Africa, and Editor of the Journal of Critical Realism.

Review:

This book is the definitive critical realist account, in accessible prose, of what science must do to maximize its understanding of the world, and in particular human wellbeing and flourishing.

Mervyn Hartwig, editor and principal author of Dictionary of Critical Realism

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0415496667
• ISBN 13: 9780415496667
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186
• Editor: Danermark Berth, Price Leigh