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an introduction to critical realism

edited by Jose Lopez and Garry Potter

Continuum,

vii, 339 p. 24 cm.

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How to change reality: story vs. structure-- a debate between /Rom Harre and Roy Bhaskar --The intersecting paths of critical relations : multiple realities, the inner planet and three dimensional worlds /Philip Hodgkiss --Reading Foucault as a realist /Frank Pearce and Tony Woodiwiss --The ethogenics of agency and structure : a metaphysical problem /Charles R. Varela --Where is social structure? /John Scott -- Metaphors of social complexity /Jose Lopez --Sociology and epistemology /Jean Bricmont --Critical realism and quantum mechanics : some introductory bearings /Christopher Norris --Why are sociologists naturephobes? /Ted Benton --Critical realism and political ecology / Tim Forsyth --Keeping it real : a critique of postmodern theories of cyberspace /Pam Higham --Is computing really for women? A critical realist approach to gender issues in computing /Sue Clegg --Truth in fiction, science and criticism /Garry Potter --Reconsidering literary interpretation /Philip Tew --Vaporising the real : artificiality, millennial anxiety and the "End of history" /Francis Barker --Rorty on pragmaticism, liberalism and the self /Justin Cruikshank --Realism and research, philosophy and poverty politics : the example of smoking /David Ford --Descartesʹ individualistic epistemology--a critique /Allison Assiter --Social movements and science : the question of plural knowledge systems /Jenneth Parker --Do realists run regressions? /Douglas V. Porpora --Marx, Hegel and the specificity of the political /Robert Fine --Critical realism in light of Marxʹs process of abstraction /Bertell Ollman --On real and nominal absences /Andrew Collier.

AU Lopez, Jose,1966- , AU Potter, Garry,1955-

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0485004216,0485006170 ,

Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-328) and index.

2005