TY - BOOK AU - Lopez,Jose AU - Potter,Garry ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - After postmodernism: an introduction to critical realism AV - B835 .A37 2005eb U1 - 149.2 21 PY - 2005/// CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Critical realism KW - Réalisme critique KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10224667 ER -