Ontological Explorations

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1. Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory

   "I move therefore I am"

   By Brenda Farnell

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate a concept of dynamic embodiment, one that positions human body movement, and not just ‘the body’ at...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Relational Sociology

   A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences

   By Pierpaolo Donati

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   ‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The convergence of two highly compatible versions of Critical Realism from two independent sources is a striking exception. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview

   Volume 1: Illustrations and Philosophical Preliminaries

   By David Tyfield

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks...

   Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview

   Volume 2: Towards a Synthesis of Political Economy and Science and Technology Studies

   By David Tyfield

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks...

   Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
5. Ecophilosophy in a World of Crisis

   Critical realism and the Nordic Contributions

   Edited by Roy Bhaskar, Petter Naess, Karl Høyer

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Building on its origins at a seminar in Oslo organized by two of the editors, this book combines classic texts of Nordic ecophilosophy and the original contributions of those influenced by this tradition to present the view that critical realism is indeed a worthy intellectual tradition to...

   Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Assumption of Agency Theory

   By Kate Forbes-Pitt

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   The Assumption of Agency Theory revisits the Turing Test and examines what Turing’s assessor knew. It asks important questions about how machines vis à vis humans have been characterized since Turing, and seeks to reverse the trend of looking closely at the machine by asking what humans know...

   Published March 31st 2011 by Routledge
7. Sociological Realism

   Edited by Andrea Maccarini, Emmanuele Morandi, Riccardo Prandini

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Sociological Realism presents a clear and updated discussion of the main tenets and issues of social theory, written by some of the top scholars within the critical realist and relational approach. It connects such approaches systematically to other strands of thought that are central in...

   Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
8. Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change

   Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future

   Edited by Roy Bhaskar, Cheryl Frank, Karl Georg Høyer, Petter Naess, Jenneth Parker

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is a major new book addressing one of the most challenging questions of our time. Its unique standpoint is based on the recognition that effective and coherent interdisciplinarity is necessary to deal with the issue of climate change, and the multitude of...

   Published January 24th 2010 by Routledge
9. The Formation of Critical Realism

   A Personal Perspective

   By Roy Bhaskar, Mervyn Hartwig

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   This series of interviews, conducted in the form of exchanges between Roy Bhaskar and Mervyn Hartwig, tells a riveting story of the formation and development of critical realism. Three intersecting and interweaving narratives unfold in the course of this unfinished story: the personal narrative of...

   Published January 17th 2010 by Routledge
10. Conversations About Reflexivity

    Edited by Margaret S. Archer

    Series: Ontological Explorations

    " Reflexivity" is defined as the regular exercise of the mental ability, shared by all normal people, to consider themselves in relation to their (social) contexts and vice versa. In addition to this sociological interest, it allows us to hold idle or trivial internal conversations. Focussing fully...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge