After postmodernism : an introduction to critical realism / / edited by Jose Lopez and Garry Potter.

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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:vii, 339 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • How to change reality: story vs. structure-- a debate between / Rom Harre 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 / Jose Lopez
  • 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.