Critical realism : basics and beyond / Hubert Buch-Hansen and Peter Nielsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buch-Hansen, Hubert, author.

Nielsen, Peter, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical realism.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

ix, 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Macmillan Education, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Critical Realism in Times of Crisis

The development of critical realism

Neoliberalism and climate crisis

About this book

2. Realism(s) and the Critique of Positivism

Realism (s)

The scientific experiment

Positivism versus critical realism

Critical rationalism versus critical realism

Positivism in contemporary social science

Positivist economics

3. Basics: Ontology and Epistemology

The transitive and intransitive dimensions

The three domains of reality

Open systems and causality

Stratification and emergence

From ontology to science

Natural and social science

4. Basics: Transcending Dualisms

Reductionism and deconstructionism

Critical realism and the agency-structure dualism

Structural conditions

Social interaction

Structural development

Agency, structure and culture

5. Practicing Critical Realism

From philosophy of science to social scientific practice

Interdisciplinarity, `role model' works and extraordinary circumstances

Into the deep: retroduction and abstraction

The quantitative and the qualitative

Knowledge production in neoliberal times

Ethics and explanatory critique

6. Neoliberalism, Growth and the Climate Crisis

Critical realism and climate crisis research

Growth and capitalism

Neoliberalism vs. the climate

Crises in the twenty-first century

Green growth or post-capitalism?

7. Discourses and (De)constructions

Idealism(s) and realism(s)

Knowledge and power

Agents and structures

Critical realism and social constructionism

Synthesising postmodernism and critical realism

Discourse and culture are not enough

8. Contemporary Critical Realism

Bhaskar's odyssey

Dialectical critical realism

Transcendental dialectical critical realism

The philosophy of meta-Reality

Controversies and open ends

Critical realism in today's social sciences

Marxism and feminism

9. What Critical Realism Is (Not)

Critical realism, critical realism

Basics and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781352010671

1352010674

9781352010657

1352010658

OCLC:

1197742898