After postmodernism an introduction to critical realism / [electronic resource] : edited by José López and Garry Potter. - London ; New York : Continuum, 2005. - vii, 339 p. ; 24 cm.

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

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


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Critical realism.
Réalisme critique.


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