| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 153 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Routledge studies in critical realism ; 11
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Routledge studies in critical realism ; 11.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-148) and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: relativism, anti-realism and causality; On the necessity of necessary connections: critical realism and Kant's transcendental idealism; Natural kinds: critical realism and Putnam's internal realism; Alethic truth; Recovering Aristotle: realism about causality and the social sciences; Conclusion: critical realism and the post-positivist quagmire; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Groff defends 'realism about causality' through close discussions of Kant, Hilary Putnam, Brian Ellis and Charles Taylor, among others. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Relativity.
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Relativity. |
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Causation.
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Causation. |
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Critical realism.
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Critical realism. |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Truth.
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Truth. |
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Positivism.
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Positivism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Groff, Ruth, 1963- Critical realism, post-positivism, and the possibility of knowledge. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 041533473X (DLC) 2003058785 (OCoLC)53132232 |
| ISBN |
0203417275 (electronic book) |
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9780203417270 (electronic book) |
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9780415334730 |
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041533473X |
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041533473X (Cloth) |
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