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Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

Autor Roy Bhaskar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 dec 2019
A picture has indeed held modern Western philosophy captive, that of the universe as a vast machine whose iron laws are best understood as exceptionless empirical regularities which, as it were, determine the future before it happens. This fantastic conception commands the assent, not just of positivistically-minded naturalists but of all the great anti-naturalists who champion a very different view of human action as a domain of freedom ‘that somehow cheats science’.


The most fundamental move in Roy Bhaskar’s system of philosophy, the germ of everything that followed, was to reconceptualise the natural world in transcendental realist terms, ‘turning Kant around using his own method’. On this account, the universe is characterized by deep structures, mechanisms and fields that generate the flux of phenomena, and is in open, creative and emergent process. This completely recasts the terms of the debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism by remedying its false grounds and shows how philosophy can be liberated from its anthropocentric/anthropomorphic prison and rendered consistent with the best insights of modern natural science. There is necessity in nature quite independent of humans, but in an open world causation is multiple and conjunctural, the actual course of the unfolding of being is highly contingent and the bases of human freedom can be understood scientifically.


Written as a DPhil thesis when Bhaskar was in his mid-twenties, Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences brilliantly launches this reconceptualisation and explores its implications for social science in the course of carrying through the metatheoretical destruction of empiricism. It will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the development of Bhaskar’s thought, in transcendental realism, and in the critique of empiricism, more generally of the philosophical discourse of Western modernity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367884673
ISBN-10: 0367884674
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

 

List of Diagrams


List of Tables


Abbreviations and Symbols


Author’s Acknowledgements


Editor’s Preface


Editor’s Acknowledgements


Introduction


1. On the Conditions of Empirical Description


1.1 Speech acts


1.2 Meaning


1.3 Propositions and directives


1.4 Propositions and statements


1.5 The context of utterance


1.6 The establishment of a common context of utterance


1.7 Further remarks on the identity of an assertion


1.8 Reflexive and non-reflexive uses of ‘true’


1.9 The notion of analyticity


1.10 The conditions of empirical description


1.11 Conclusion: themes


2. Empiricist theories of the production of knowledge


2.1 Introduction


2.2 The reification of facts and the autonomisation of experience


2.3 Theories of the explanation and justification of ideas


2.4 The theory of incorrigibility


2.5 The method and consequences of phenomenalism


2.6 Theories of the production of knowledge


2.7 The problem of scepticism


2.8 The problem of argument and the metatheory of science


2.9 Meaning and scientific change


2.10 The theory of falsifiability


2.11 The grounds for an asymmetry and the implications of relativism


2.12 The concept of a fact


3. Explanation in open systems


3.1 Introduction


3.2 Determinisms


3.3 The concept of a closure


3.4 Two types of autonomy in open systems


3.5 Positivism and the idea of a closure


3.6 Introductory remarks on explanation in the social sciences


3.7 The inadequacies of reductionism


3.8 On the absence of an experimental object of inquiry


3.9 On the theoretical objects of social sciences


3.10 Some properties of social systems and of

Notă biografică

Roy Bhaskar (1944–2014) was the originator of the philosophy of critical realism and the author of many acclaimed and influential works, including A Realist Theory of Science; The Possibility of Naturalism; Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom; The Philosophy of MetaReality; Enlightened Common Sense and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism.


Mervyn Hartwig is founding editor (retired) of Journal of Critical Realism and editor and principal author of Dictionary of Critical Realism.

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Written as a DPhil thesis when Bhaskar was in his mid-twenties, Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences brilliantly launches a reconceptualization of the natural world in transcendental realist terms, ‘turning Kant around using his own method’, and explores its implications for social science in the course of carrying th