This book offers a broad-based critical survey of recent anti-realist arguments in the philosophy of science, cultural theory, hermeneutics, the sociology of knowledge and the interpretation of quantum-mechanics. Norris' contribution will be welcome for its vigorous critique of these ideas and also, more constructively, for presenting strong counter-arguments in support of the realist case. This book will be widely discussed for its cogent defence of critical realism in the natural and human sciences. It will also provoke debate through its revisionist reading of Derrida, its engagement with postmodernist theory, and not least its detailed reconstruction of crucial episodes in the recent history of Anglo-American and continental philosophy.
- ISBN10 0719050928
- ISBN13 9780719050923
- Publish Date 19 June 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 April 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English