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A realist theory of science / Roy Bhaskar.

By: Bhaskar, Roy, 1944-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Verso, 1997Description: 284 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1859841031.Subject(s): Science -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 501
Contents:
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.
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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.

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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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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