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Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation

by Roy Bhaskar · 1986

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This book starts from an assessment of the impasse of contemporary philosophy of science which stems from an incomplete critique of positivism. It then proceeds to a systematic exposition of scientific realism in the form of transcendental realism. This highlights a conception of science as explanatory of a structured differentiated and changing world.

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medium · 256 pages

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