THEBES IN THE FIFTH CENTURY

Part I: Transcendental realism and science 1. Introduction: Basic texts and developments 2. Philosophy and scientific realism 3. The logic of scientific discovery 4. Conceptual and natural necessity 5. Abstraction: A realist interpretation 6. Economic science without experimentation / Abstraction Part II: Critical naturalism and social science 7. Introduction: Realism in the social sciences 8. Societies 9. Stratified explanation and Marx's conception of history 10. Realism and social science 11. Realism and social science: Some comments on Roy Bhaskar's 'The Possibility of Naturalism' 12. A realist social science 13. Four concepts of social structure 14. Realism and morphogenesis Part III: The theory of explanatory critiques 15. Introduction: Explanatory critiques 16. Reason as dialectic: Science, social science and socialist science 17. Facts and values: Theory and practice / Reason and the dialectic of human emancipation / Depth, rationality and change 18. Explanation and emancipation 19. Neutrality in the social sciences: On Bhaskar's argument for an essential emancipatory impulse in social science 20. Addressing the cultural system 21. The praxiology of legal judgement Part IV: Dialectic and dialectical critical realism 22. Introduction: Dialectic and dialectical critical realism 23. Critical realism and dialectic 24. Dialectical critical realism and ethics 25. The power of negative thinking 26. Realism and formalism in ethics 27. The limits of justice: Finding fault in the criminal law 28. Between structure and difference: Law's relationality