Concept

Critical realism (philosophy of the social sciences)

Overview

philosophical approach associated with Roy Bhaskar

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Related ideas

• Empiricism
• Philosophical realism
• Heraclitus
• Antipositivism
• Sociology
• Arne Næss
• Deep ecology
• Ontology
• Postmodernism
• Post-structuralism
• University of Cambridge
• Social science
• Constant conjunction
• Positivism
• Anthony Giddens
• Philosophy of science
• Causality
• Discourse
• Relativism
• Methodology
• Structure and agency
• David Hume
• Epistemology
• Ecology

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy of science.

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