Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom
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abnormal
Abnormal Discourse
agency and determinism
Author_Roy Bhaskar
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Charles Guignon
Common Language
conjunction
constant
critical
Critical Realism
critique of Rorty on science and agency
discourse
epistemic
Epistemic Fallacy
epistemological critique
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existential
Existential Intransitivity
fallacy
Final Vocabulary
FMR.
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Grundlegung Zur Metaphysik Der Sitten
Hempelian Theory
Identical Subject Object
Intransitive Dimension
intransitivity
Irreducible Normativity
Kantian antinomy
knowledge historicity
Liberal Ironist
Natural Ontological Attitude
Ontic Fallacy
PBL.
PDP.
PMN
PON
post-Philosophical Culture
Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism
Public Pragmatism
realism
scientific rationality
Single Fault Line
Western philosophical tradition
Product details
- ISBN 9780415579650
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jan 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 2011. In Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom Roy Bhaskar sets out to develop a critique of the work of Richard Rorty, who must be one of the most in?uential authors of recent decades. In a brilliant tour de force, Bhaskar shows how Rorty falls victim to the very epistemological problematic Rorty himself describes. Roy Bhaskar argues that Rorty’s account of science and knowledge is based on a half-truth. He sees the historicity of knowledge but cannot sustain its rationality or the reality of the objects it describes. The author further argues that Rorty’s problem-?eld replicates the Kantian resolution of the third antinomy: we are determined as material bodies, but free as discursive (speaking and writing) subjects. Rorty’s actualism (like Kant’s) makes human agency impossible. Developing his own critical realism, Bhaskar shows just where Rorty’s system comes unstuck, and how the philosophical problems to which it gives rise can be rationally resolved and explained. In this process Bhaskar utilizes his critique of Rorty to begin to elaborate his own alternative interpretation and critique of the philosophical conversation of the West.
Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism, and the author of many acclaimed and in?uential works including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, Plato Etc., From Science to Emancipation, Reflections on meta-Reality and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism. He is an editor of Critical Realism: Essential Readings and Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change and was the founding chair of the Centre for Critical Realism. He is currently a World Scholar at the University of London Institute of Education.
