A Complex Integral Realist Perspective

Paul Marshall

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• This book sketches the contours of a vision that moves beyond the dominant paradigm or worldview that underlies and governs modernity (and postmoderni... Lees meer

Critical Realism

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• Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bha... Lees meer

Science for Humanism

Charles R Varela

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• In the 18th century, the pre-modern Judeo-Greco-Christian problem of freedom and determinism is transformed by Kant into the modern problem of the fre... Lees meer

Childhoods Real and Imagined

Priscilla Alderson

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• "This book is unusually rewarding in that its author has pulled off the rare trick of providing deep philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to a ... Lees meer

The Assumption of Agency Theory

Kate Forbes-Pitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• The Assumption of Agency Theory revisits the Turing Test and examines what Turing's assessor knew. It asks important questions about how machines vis ... Lees meer

Critical Realism, Somalia and the Diaspora Community

Abdullahi Haji-Abdi

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• Critical Realism, Somalia and the Diaspora Community equips new researchers with a simplified knowledge of critical realism suitable to the degree of ... Lees meer

The Politics of Childhoods Real and Imagined

Priscilla Alderson

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• The second volume of Priscilla Alderson's popular and renowned book Childhoods Real and Imagined relates dialectical critical realism to childhood. By... Lees meer

Conversations about Reflexivity

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• " Reflexivity" is defined as the regular exercise of the mental ability, shared by all normal people, to consider themselves in relation to their (soc... Lees meer

Economic Growth and Sustainable Housing

Jin Xue

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• Economic Growth and Sustainable Housing: An Uneasy Relationship critically discusses the possibilities of decoupling environmental degradation from ec... Lees meer

Dialectic and Difference

Alan Norrie

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• Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar's dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice. That... Lees meer

Critical Realism, Environmental Learning and Social-Ecological Change

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• Southern Africa, where most of these book chapters originate, has been identified as one of regions of the world most at risk of the consequences of e... Lees meer

Critical Realism and Housing Research

Julie Lawson

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• Since the nineteenth century various housing solutions have evolved, such as sprawling Australian home ownership and compact Dutch social rental housi... Lees meer

The Economics of Science

David Tyfield

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• Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a hu... Lees meer

Crisis System

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• This book throws light onto the nature and causes of three different but strongly interconnected crises in contemporary societies worldwide: an econom... Lees meer

Ontology Revisited

Ruth Groff

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• Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutra... Lees meer

The Political Economy of European Social Democracy

David J Bailey

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• This book takes an in-depth look into recent developments in European social democracy. It begins by highlighting the somewhat paradoxical turn by a n... Lees meer

Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking

Kathryn Dean

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• Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking proposes a historical materialist ethic of human flourishing understood in terms of the practice of c... Lees meer

Childhoods Real and Imagined

Priscilla Alderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• "This book is unusually rewarding in that its author has pulled off the rare trick of providing deep philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to a ... Lees meer

Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory

Brenda Farnell

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• This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist phi... Lees meer

Relational Sociology

Pierpaolo Donati

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• 'Simultaneous invention' has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The conve... Lees meer

The Idea of Critique

Craig Reeves

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• The Idea of Critique addresses the shortcomings of existing literature by developing an original, detailed and comprehensive interpretation of Bhaskar... Lees meer

Post-Secularism, Realism and Utopia

Jolyon Agar

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• This book explores the contribution to recent developments in post-secularism, philosophical realism and utopianism made by key thinkers in the Hegeli... Lees meer

Engaging with the World

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• This title reflects the general theme of the 2010 IACR annual conference that was held in Padova, Italy, the aim of which was to provide a fresh view ... Lees meer

What's Critical about Critical Realism?

Frédéric Vandenberghe

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• What's Critical About Critical Realism?: Essays in Reconstructive Social Theory draws together 4 major articles that are situated at the intersection ... Lees meer