A realist theory of science / Roy Bhaskar.
By: Bhaskar, Roy.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Verso, 1997Description: 284 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1859841031.Subject(s): Science -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 501Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 501 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00010412 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Bibliography: (pages 263-272) and indexes.
Introduction -- Philosophy and scientific realism -- Actualism and the concept of a closure -- The logic of scientific discovery -- A realist theory of science -- Metaphysics and the philosophy of science.