Roy Bhaskar: 16 books
Roy Bhaskar
A Theory of Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
This book provides an account of an original educational philosophy, developed by one of the most significant philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Roy Bhaskar. Though he directed his attention to wider matters than education, his philosophy has implications for the...
From Science to Emancipation
Alienation and the Actuality of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
From Science to Emancipation: Alienation and the Actuality of Enlightenment is the second of three books elaborating Roy Bhaskar’s new philosophy of metaReality, which appeared in rapid succession in 2002.
With a new introduction from Mervyn Hartwig, this book contains some of the original...
Reclaiming Reality
A Critical Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Originally published in 1989, Reclaiming Reality still provides the most accessible introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism. It is designed to "underlabour" both for the sciences, especially the human sciences,...
by Roy Bhaskar
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Following on from Roy Bhaskar’s first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, establishes the conception of social science as explanatory—and thence emancipatory—critique.
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation...
The Formation of Critical Realism
A Personal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
This series of interviews, conducted in the form of exchanges between Roy Bhaskar and Mervyn Hartwig, tells a riveting story of the formation and development of critical realism.
Three intersecting and interweaving narratives unfold in the course of this unfinished story: the personal narrative...
Reflections on metaReality
Transcendence, Emancipation and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Reflections on meta-Reality is now widely regarded as a landmark in contemporary philosophy. It initiates the philosophy of meta-Reality, the third main phase of Roy Bhaskar’s philosophical thoughts, after original or basic critical realism and dialectical critical realism. Originally published...
by Roy Bhaskar
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
A picture has indeed held modern Western philosophy captive, that of the universe as a vast machine whose iron laws are best understood as exceptionless empirical regularities which, as it were, determine the future before it happens. This fantastic conception commands the assent, not just of positivistically-minded...
Enlightened Common Sense
The Philosophy of Critical Realism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Since the 1970s, critical realism has grown to address a range of subjects, including economics, philosophy, science, and religion. It has become a complex and mature philosophy.
Enlightened Common Sense: The Philosophy of Critical Realism looks back over this development in one concise and...
Plato Etc
Problems of Philosophy and their Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
In this concise text, Roy Bhaskar sets out to diagnose, explain and resolve the "problems of philosophy". Plato Etc. reviews all the main areas of the subject: the theory of knowledge and philosophy of science; the philosophy of logic and language; the philosophies of space, time and causality;...
Dialectic
The Pulse of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom is now widely regarded as a classic of contemporary philosophy. This book, first published in 1993, sets itself three main aims: the development of a general theory of dialectic, of which Hegelian dialectic can be seen to be a special case; the dialectical enrichment...
From East To West
Odyssey of a Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
In this radical book, Roy Bhaskar expands his philosophy of critical realism with an audacious re-synthesis of many aspects of Western and Eastern thought. Arguing that the existence of God provides the fundamental structure of the world, he renders plausible ideas of reincarnation, karma and moksha...
The Possibility of Naturalism
A philosophical critique of the contemporary human sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Since its original publication in 1979, The Possibility of Naturalism has been one of the most influential works in contemporary philosophy of science and social science. It is one of the cornerstones of the critical realist position, which is now widely seen as offering perhaps the only viable alternative...
The Philosophy of metaReality
Creativity, Love and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Roy Bhaskar
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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