Books by Roy Bhaskar

Sets out to diagnose and explain all the major - old and new - "problems of philosophy". The book includes a synoptic account of the development of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to poststructuralism. It is designed to be both an introductory work and a resource for scholars.

This series of linked essays is an accessible intervention in the current debates about realism which are of increasing significance on both sides of the Atlantic. It is designed to underlabour both for the sciences, especially the human sciences, and for the projects of human emancipation which such sciences may come to inform.Elaborating his own highly original critical realist perspective on society, nature, science and philosophy itself. Roy Bhaskar shows how this new perspective can be used to undermine currently fashionable ideologies of the right and, at the same time. to clear the ground for a reinvigorated left. Reclaiming Reality contains powerful critiques of some of the most important schools of thought and thinkers of our time — from Bachelard and Feyerabend to Rorty and Habermas. It advances novel and convincing resolutions of many traditional philosophical problems.Providing a straightforward and stimulating introduction to current debates in the philosophy of science and of social theory, for the interested lay reader and student alike. this book will be of particular value for all those concerned with the socialist emancipatory project and the renaissance of the Marxist theoretical tradition.

Attacks purely analytical modes of thinking. Bhaskar develops a critical realist philosophy, which isolates the definition of being in terms of knowledge as the characteristic flaw of traditional philosophy. He argues that critical realism is the basis of a new methodology for the human sciences.

Rev. ed. of: Reflections on meta-reality.

Sets out to develop a critique of the work of Richard Rorty, one of the most influential authors. This title argues that Rorty's account of science and knowledge is based on a half-truth, and that Rorty's problem-field replicates the Kantian resolution of the third antinomy: we are determined as material bodies, but free as discursive subjects.

Includes interviews, which tell a story of the formation and development of critical realism.

Dealing with philosophy of science, this book sets out to revindicate ontology, critiquing the reduction of being in favor of knowledge, which the author calls the "epistemic fallacy".

Dealing with contemporary philosophy, this book sets itself three main aims: the development of a general theory of dialectic, of which Hegelian dialectic can be seen to be a special case; the dialectical enrichment and deepening of critical realism; and the outline of the elements of a totalizing critique of Western philosophy.

Presents an introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism. This book contains critiques of some of the most important schools of thought and thinkers and advances novel and convincing resolutions of many traditional philosophical problems.

Diagnoses, explains and resolves the "problems of philosophy". This book reviews: the theory of knowledge and philosophy of science; the philosophy of logic and language; the philosophies of space, time and causality; the philosophy of the social and life sciences and of dialectic; and, ethics, politics and aesthetics.