Plato etc.
Subtitle: problems of philosophy and their resolution
By: Roy Bhaskar.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780415563710; 9780415454926; 9780203860069
Subjects: Philosophy; Critical realism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Is philosophy worth it?; title: Explanation and the laws of nature; title: Reference, truth, and meaning; title: Causality, change, and emergence; title: Making it happen (social agency); title: Dialectic; title: Living well; title: Dialectic critical realism; title: Socrates and so on?; title: Philosophy and the dialectic of emancipation; title: Appendix: explaining philosophies.