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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Abbreviations
Editor’s preface
Acknowledgments
1 On the presuppositions and origins of the philosophy of critical realism
1.1 Distinctive features of the critical realist approach to philosophy
1.2 On the origins, development and differentiae of the philosophy of critical realism and the organisation of the book
1.3 Consequences of the vindication of ontology for social theory
1.4 Preview of the argument to come
2 Transcendental realism and the philosophy of science
2.1 The double argument: for ontology, and for a new ontology
2.2 Implications of the argument for ontology
2.3 Implications of the argument for a new ontology
2.4 Tracing the consequences of transcendental realism
2.5 A note on the disjuncture between the domains of the real and the actual
2.6 Deepening the argument for transcendental realism
2.7 The aporias of actualism
2.8 The immanent context and transcendental necessity of transcendental realism
2.9 The further development of ontology within critical realism
2.10 Critique of irrealist alternatives and anthropocentricity
3 Critical naturalism and the philosophy of social science
3.1 Methodological preliminaries
3.2 Transcendental realism, the philosophy of the social sciences and the problem of naturalism
3.3 Transcending the macrodualisms and the critique of social theory
3.4 Transcending the microdualisms: intentional causality and the formation of human agency
3.5 Critical naturalism and personalism
3.6 Agency and actualism
4 Applied critical realism and interdisciplinarity
4.1 Applied critical realism generally
4.2 Interdisciplinary research
4.3 Utilising further developments in critical realism in applied critical realist research
5 Ethics and language: explanatory critique and critical discourse analysis
5.1 Explanatory critique and ethics
5.2 Critical discourse analysis and language
6 The further development of critical realism I: dialectical critical realism
6.1 The development of ontology
6.2 Absence and change
6.3 Dialectic and 2E generally
6.4 1M non-identity
6.5 3L totality
6.6 4D transformative praxis
6.7 The dialectic of freedom
6.8 The dialectical presentation of dialectical critical realism
7 The further development of critical realism II: the philosophy of metaReality
7.1 Transcendental dialectical critical realism and the philosophy of metaReality: two phases of the ‘spiritual turn’
7.2 The primacy of identity and unity
7.3 The basic arguments for metaReality
7.4 Principles of metaReality
7.5 Extension of the logic of freedom
7.6 Creativity, learning and education and the critique of the discursive intellect
7.7 The circles of love
7.8 Spirituality
7.9 Peace and conflict resolution
8 Critique of the philosophical discourse of modernity and the western philosophical tradition
8.1 Critique of the philosophical discourse of modernity
8.2 Critique of the Western philosophical tradition
8.3 So how did it get to be this way?
9 Critical realism and the ontology of the good society
9.1 The dialectical development of critical realism and the collapse of the arch of knowledge tradition
9.2 Critical realism and the ontology of the good society
9.3 Advantages of critical realism
Bibliography
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