This text offers a user's guide to the philosophical work of Roy Bhaskar. The author expounds the main concepts of Bhaskar's work and defends his theory of knowledge. Part One deals with the philosophy of the experimental sciences. Part Two discusses the human sciences, exploring Bhaskar's understanding of the human world and the ways in which it is studied, in ethics, politics, economics, psychoanalysis and linguistics. Finally, Collier discusses some criticisms and unresolved problems of critical realism.
- ISBN10 0860914372
- ISBN13 9780860914372
- Publish Date 28 February 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 June 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English