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Critical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge

By Ruth Groff
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By Ruth Groff
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Groff defends 'realism about causality' through close discussions of Kant, Hilary Putnam, Brian Ellis and Charles Taylor, among others. In so doing she affirms critical realism, but with several important qualifications. In particular, she rejects the theory of truth advanced by Roy Bhaskar. She also attempts to both clarify and correct earlier critical realist attempts to apply realism about causality to the social sciences.

By connecting issues in metaphysics and philosophy of science to t...

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