After postmodernism an introduction to critical realism / edited by José López and Garry Potter.
| Other author | López, José, 1966- |
| Other author | Potter, Garry, 1955- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Continuum, |
| Description | vii, 339 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | How to change reality: story vs. structure-- a debate between / Rom Harré 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 / José López -- 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 -- Descartes' 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 Marx's process of abstraction / Bertell Ollman -- On real and nominal absences / Andrew Collier. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-328) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005281984 |
| ISBN | 0485004216 |
| ISBN | 0485006170 (pbk.) |
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