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After postmodernism [electronic resource] : an introduction to critical realism / edited by José López and Garry Potter.

Contributor(s): Lopez, Jose, 1966- | Potter, Garry, 1955- | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum, 2005Description: vii, 339 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Critical realism | Réalisme critiqueGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 149.2 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-328) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.