Part 1 Introduction - realism and human being, Roy Bhaskar. Part 2 Issues in realist philosophy of science: perception and human reality, Marjorie Grene; modest realism, experience and evolution, Peter Manicas; reason and reality - a prolegomenon to their varieties, John Lucas; experimental realism, Jerry Aronson; the scientists as Homo loquens, Roy Harris. Part 3 Controversies in the philosophies of physics: new tasks for the philosophy of physics, John Roche; realism and the global topology of spacetime, Robert Weingard; undressing baby bell, Michael Redhead. Part 4 Controversies in the philosophy of the human sciences: an empirical interpretation of ethogenics, Michael Argyle; I don't know why I did it, Tony Crowle; "subjects" versus "persons" in social psychological research, Paul Secord; a concise theory of dialectics, Jean-Pierre de Waele; realism and the turn to social constructionism, John Shotter; the realism of the symbolic, Charles W. Smith; work in organizations as social activity, Jose-Luise Rodrigeuz; are selves real?, Uffe J. Jenson; hysteria, belief and magic, David Taylor; ordinary animals, language animals and verbal tradition, Vernon Reynolds. Part 5 Commentary - exploring the human "umweld", Rom Harre.
