A Realist Theory of Science (Verso Classics, 9) - Softcover

Bhaskar, Roy

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9781859841037: A Realist Theory of Science (Verso Classics, 9)

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ISBN 10: 1859841031 ISBN 13: 9781859841037

Publisher: Verso, 1997

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This brilliant, systematic and original study describes how only a conception of science as a social activity attempting to capture ever deeper structures of the world can reconcile the conflicting insights of empiricism and rationalism.

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About the Author:

Roy Bhaskar is an independent scholar and founder of the critical realist movement in the social sciences. He is the author of several books, including The Possibility of Naturalism, Reclaiming Reality, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom and Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom.

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“The philosopher of science Roy Bhaskar has been arguing with admirable zeal and rigor for a realist conception of the world and our cognition of it.”—Terry Eagleton

“Compelling reading; and as a contribution to the social sciences it deserves to be widely read.”—Times Literary Supplement

“Roy Bhaskar is one of the most original and versatile British philosophers of the post-war generation, and one of the very few whose work is likely to have a really lasting and world-wide impact on philosophy and social science.”—Times Higher Education Supplement

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