R. Kumar Bhaskar

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R. Kumar Bhaskar

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#3512

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PhD Philosophy University of Oxford
Bachelors Philosophy Delhi University

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A realist theory of science (1976) (2807)
The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences (1979) (1749)
Critical Realism : Essential Readings (1998) (1209)
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation (1986) (1115)
Reclaiming Reality: A Critical Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (1989) (1030)
Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom (1993) (910)
Ideology‐An Introduction (1992) (652)
The Possibility of Naturalism (2014) (414)
Metatheory, Interdisciplinarity and Disability Research: A Critical Realist Perspective (2006) (266)
Philosophy And The Idea Of Freedom (1991) (253)
Interdisciplinarity and climate change : transforming knowledge and practice for our global future (2010) (247)
Problem Solving in Semantically Rich Domains: An Example from Engineering Thermodynamics (1977) (220)
On the Possibility of Social Scientific Knowledge and the Limits of Naturalism (1978) (210)
Plato, Etc.: Problems of Philosophy and their Resolution (1994) (205)
Four concepts of social structure (2013) (144)
Introduction: Realism in the social sciences (2013) (135)
Qualitative Physics Using Dimensional Analysis (1990) (134)
The Possibility Of Naturalism Vol.-i (1979) (129)
From Science to Emancipation: Alienation and the Actuality of Enlightenment (2003) (119)
Reflections on Meta-Reality: Transcendence, Emancipation and Everyday Life (2002) (106)
Contexts of Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change (2010) (88)
On the Ontological Status of Ideas (2008) (87)
The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Human Sciences (1982) (74)
Discourse Theory vs Critical Realism (1998) (67)
Abstraction: A realist interpretation (2013) (63)
How to decide how to decide (1983) (63)
Philosophy and scientific realism (2013) (62)
Introduction: Basic texts and developments (2013) (56)
Beef, Structure and Place: Notes from a Critical Naturalist Perspective (1983) (56)
Enlightened Common Sense: The Philosophy of Critical Realism (2016) (56)
From East To West: Odyssey of a Soul (2000) (47)
Analyzing and re-engineering business processes using simulation (1994) (47)
From Science to Emancipation (2002) (44)
The Philosophy of MetaReality: Creativity, Love and Freedom (2012) (40)
Marxism and Critical Realism (2003) (36)
Facts and values: Theory and practice / Reason and the dialectic of human emancipation / Depth, rationality and change (2013) (30)
Marx's Theory of History. (1981) (30)
Explanation and emancipation (2013) (27)
The Philosophy of Meta-Reality (2002) (27)
Key Dimensions of Spirit at Work—An Indian Perspective (2011) (23)
meta-Reality: The Philosophy of meta-Reality volume 1: Creativity, Love and Freedom (2002) (23)
None of Our Business (2004) (21)
Stratified explanation and Marx's conception of history (2013) (21)
Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change (2010) (21)
Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: Critical realism and the Nordic contributions (2011) (18)
Harré and His Critics: Essays in Honour of Rom Harré with His Commentary on Them (1990) (18)
A realist social science (2013) (18)
Metatheory for the Twenty-First Century : Critical Realism and Integral Theory in Dialogue (2015) (17)
Introduction: Dialectic and dialectical critical realism (2013) (15)
Scientific Explanation and Human Emancipation (1983) (14)
Economic science without experimentation / Abstraction (2013) (14)
Critical realism and the ontology of persons* (2020) (13)
Introduction: Explanatory critiques (2013) (13)
Realism and social science: Some comments on Roy Bhaskar's 'The Possibility of Naturalism' (2013) (12)
Critical Realism in Resonance with Nordic Ecophilosophy (2011) (12)
Dialectical critical realism and ethics (2013) (11)
Reason as dialectic: Science, social science and socialist science (2013) (11)
Critical Realism and Discourse Theory: Debate with Ernesto Laclau (2013) (10)
The role of task analysis in understanding problem-solving behavior (1981) (9)
Using first-order cognitive analysis to understand problem solving behavior: An example from accounting (1982) (8)
The logic of scientific discovery (2013) (8)
Qualitative Explanations of Red Giant Formation (1991) (6)
Critical realism and dialectic (2013) (5)
The consequences of the revindication of philosophical ontology for philosophy and social theory (2013) (5)
Skill acquisition in the bookkeeping task (1983) (3)
Realism and formalism in ethics (2013) (3)
The praxiology of legal judgement (2013) (3)
Introducing Transcendental Dialectical Critical Realism (2000) (3)
Critical realism : interventions (2001) (3)
Reality and Its Depths (2020) (3)
Realism in the Natural Sciences (1982) (2)
Using cognitive science to assign test weights (1983) (2)
The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philsophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences. (1981) (2)
Creativity, love and freedom (2002) (2)
Qualitative reasoning about a large system using dimensional analysis (1993) (2)
The Positivist Illusion: Sketch of a Philosophical Ideology at Work (2009) (2)
Forms of realism (1975) (2)
Transcendental Realism and the Problem of Naturalism (2014) (2)
Bounded Rationality and Materials Selection (1999) (1)
Being and Knowing (2015) (1)
Notes on a Theory of Education and Learning (2015) (1)
Critical naturalism and the philosophy of social science (2016) (1)
Beyond East and West (2008) (1)
1 Contexts of interdisciplinarity Interdisciplinarity and climate change (2011) (1)
Critical Reaalism: Essential Readings (2001) (1)
Dialectic: The Logic of Absence—Arguments, Themes, Perspectives, Configurations (2008) (1)
The Philosophy of Meta-Reality, Part I: Identity, Spirituality, System (2002) (1)
The power of negative thinking (2013) (1)
Explanation in open systems (2018) (0)
On the presuppositions and origins of the philosophy of critical realism (2016) (0)
Roy Bhaskar—A Short Biography (2015) (0)
In Memoriam: Roy Bhaskar 1944–2014 (2015) (0)
A history of the CR–IT dialogues (2015) (0)
Metacritical Dialectics: Irrealism and Its Consequences (2008) (0)
On the conditions of empirical description (2018) (0)
Empiricist theories of the production of knowledge (2018) (0)
Critical realism and Materialism: Debate with Alex Callinocos (2003) (0)
Social Transformation and Software Design : A Critical Realist Approach to the Teaching of Written Composition (2008) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
Interdisciplinarity and Laminated Systems (2015) (0)
The Arrogance of Humanism by David Ehrenfeld (review) (2017) (0)
Metatheory and the emergence of integrated knowledge (2015) (0)
Scientific Progress: A Study concerning the Nature of the Relation between Successive Scientific Theories. Craig DilworthScientific Revolutions. Ian Hacking (1983) (0)
The further development of critical realism I: dialectical critical realism (2016) (0)
How False Theories Work: TINA Formations and the Critique of Irrealism (2020) (0)
Knowledge, Learning and Change (2015) (0)
Applied critical realism and interdisciplinarity (2016) (0)
The Philosophy of MetaReality: Identity, Spirituality, System (2013) (0)
Marx's critique of Hegelian dialectic and the fate of "actually existing socialism" (2013) (0)
OBITUARY (1986) (0)
Qualitative Astrophysics (1990) (0)
Transcendental Realism and Critical Naturalism (2020) (0)
Re-enchanting Reality: Practical Ways to Become Freer (2020) (0)
A Theory of Education, Enlightenment, and Universal Self-Realisation (2015) (0)
Part III Politics (2013) (0)
Is Philosophy Worth It (2009) (0)
The absent curriculum (2013) (0)
Realism and social science (2013) (0)
Althusser, Louis. Machievelli and Us. Ed. François Matheron. Verso, 1999. pp. 136. $30.00 cloth. Angus, Ian.(Dis) figurations: Discourse/Critique/Ethics. Verso, 2000. pp. 269. $20 paper. Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII and IX. Ed. Michael Pakaluk (2001) (0)
Reference, Truth and Meaning (2009) (0)
The Transitions to Dialectical Critical Realism and the Theory of Everyday Transcendence (2020) (0)
Critical realism and the ontology of the good society (2016) (0)
Recognition and Immortality, Failure and Success (2020) (0)
The Question of Women (2020) (0)
Differential Equations as Enablers of Qualitative Reasoning Using Dimensional Analysis (1992) (0)
Childhood and University (2020) (0)
The Emotions, Thought and Self-realisation (2020) (0)
THE PHILOSOPHY OF KARL POPPER by Robert John Ackermann (1977) (0)
Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences (2018) (0)
Critique of Modernism and Postmodernism (2020) (0)
Recovery of Truth and the Dialectic of Self-realisation (2020) (0)
God, the Cosmic Envelope and the Self (2020) (0)