TY - BOOK AU - Archer,Margaret Scotford TI - Critical realism: essential readings T2 - Critical realism--interventions SN - 0415196310 AV - B835 .C75 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Critical realism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; part I; Transcendental realism and science; 1; Introduction: Basic texts and developments; Roy Bhaskar and Tony Lawson; 2; Philosophy and scientific realism; Roy Bhaskar; 3; The logic of scientific discovery; Roy Bhaskar; 4; Conceptual and natural necessity; R. Harre and E.H. Madden; 5; Abstraction: A realist interpretation; Andrew Sayer; 6; Economic science without experimentation; / Abstraction; Tony Lawson --; part II; Critical naturalism and social science; 7; Introduction: Realism in the social sciences; Margaret Archer; 8; Societies; Roy Bhaskar; 9; Stratified explanation and Marx's conception of history; Andrew Collier; 10; Realism and social science; William Outhwaite N2 - This reader is designed to make accessible in one volume, to lay person and academic, student and teacher alike, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism ER -