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Sets out to diagnose and explain all the major - old and new - "problems of philosophy". The book includes a synoptic account of the development of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to poststructuralism. It is designed to be both an introductory work and a resource for scholars.

In a wide-ranging survey of the minefields of contemporary philosophy and social thought, Roy Bhaskar develops his own positive and highly original theories of the nature of science and being, social science and history, and philosophical discourse and ideology.Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation starts from an assessment of the impasse of contemporary philosophy of science which stems from an incomplete critique of positivism. It then p...

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Written as a DPhil thesis when Bhaskar was in his mid-twenties, Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences brilliantly launches a reconceptualization of the natural world in transcendental realist terms, `turning Kant around using his own method¿, and explores its implications for social science in the course of carrying th

Attacks purely analytical modes of thinking. Bhaskar develops a critical realist philosophy, which isolates the definition of being in terms of knowledge as the characteristic flaw of traditional philosophy. He argues that critical realism is the basis of a new methodology for the human sciences.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to health, this volume considers the 'seven enigmas' facing the health practitioner, namely the enigmas of diagnosis, symptomology, causation, healing, prevention, intervention/treatment/therapy and finally rehabilitation.

Written as a DPhil thesis when Bhaskar was in his mid-twenties, Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences brilliantly launches a reconceptualization of the natural world in transcendental realist terms, `turning Kant around using his own method¿, and explores its implications for social science in the course of carrying through the metatheoretical destruction of empiricism. It will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in t...

Meta-Reality emerged from the use of critical realist philosophy to address the fundamental philosophical questions, The nature of the self, The limits of thought, The possibility of personal freedom, The role of religion and spirituality in our lives. In this comprehensive introductory text, the originator of meta-Reality Roy Bhaskar talks the reader through the step by step emergence of his philosophy of meta-Reality, from his earlier philos...

Meta-Reality emerged from the use of critical realist philosophy to address the fundamental philosophical questions, The nature of the self, The limits of thought, The possibility of personal freedom, The role of religion and spirituality in our lives.In this comprehensive introductory text, the originator of meta-Reality Roy Bhaskar talks the reader through the step by step emergence of his philosophy of meta-Reality, from his earlier philoso...

Assesses the impasse of contemporary accounts of science as stemming from an incomplete critique of positivism. This book presents an exposition of scientific realism in the form of transcendental realism, highlighting a conception of science as explanatory of a structured, differentiated and changing world.

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Sets out to diagnose, explain and resolve the 'problems of philosophy'. This book reviews: the theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, the philosophy of logic and language, the philosophies of space, time and causality, the philosophy of the social and life sciences and of dialectic, and ethics, politics and aesthetics.

Includes interviews, which tell a story of the formation and development of critical realism.

Sets out to develop a critique of the work of Richard Rorty, one of the most influential authors. This title argues that Rorty's account of science and knowledge is based on a half-truth, and that Rorty's problem-field replicates the Kantian resolution of the third antinomy: we are determined as material bodies, but free as discursive subjects.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Originally published in 2002 and based on talks given in India, Europe and America, Roy Bhaskar presents his new philosophy of meta-Reality as a radical extension, systematic development and proleptic completion of critical realism. A new introduction to this edition by Mervyn Hartwig, founding editor of The Journal of Critical Realism and editor of A Dictionary of Critical Realism (Routledge, 2007), describes the context, significance and imp...

This was 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 Hartwick, this book contains some of the original transcripts & the questions & answers they provoked, from a variety of lecture & workshop tours.

Rev. ed. of: Reflections on meta-reality.

In Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom Roy Bhaskar sets out to develop a critique of the work of Richard Rorty, who must be one of the most influential authors of recent decades. In a brilliant tour de force, Bhaskar shows how Rorty falls victim to the very epistemological problematic Rorty himself describes.