Critical Realism
Subtitle: Essential Readings (Critical Realism--Interventions)
Contributors: Roy Bhaskar (Editor); Margaret Archer (Editor); Andrew Collier (Editor); Tony Lawson (Editor); Alan Norrie (Editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 15, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 756
ISBN-13: 9780415196321
First sentence: Any adequate philosophy of science must find a way of grappling with this central paradox of science: that men in their social activity produce knowledge which is a social product much like any other, which is no more independent of its production and the men who produce it than motor cars, armchairs or books, which has its own craftsmen, technicians, publicists, standards and skills and which is no less subject to change than any other commodity.