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The Failure of Roy Bhaskar's Explanatory Critique

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2023
AbstractAccording to Roy Bhaskar, social science can derive values from social facts by a process called “explanatory critique.” Bhaskar offers two different versions of explanatory critique: a belief‐based version and a need‐based version. Both versions are faced with a difficult objection.
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Roy Bhaskar—A Short Biography

2015
This chapter provides an account of an original educational philosophy, developed by one of the most significant philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Roy Bhaskar. Though he directed his attention to wider matters than education , his philosophy has implications for the way we can understand how the world is structured ...
David Scott, Roy Bhaskar
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An examination of Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism as a basis for educational practice

Journal of Critical Realism, 2020
This article is an up-dated version of Gordon Brown's ontological approach to education. It tests the hypothesis that Roy Bhaskar's critical realism can successfully underpin education by applying ...
Mehri Mirzaei Rafe, Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast, Afzal Sadat Hosseini, Narges Sajadieh   +3 more
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Mort d’un maître-penseur : Roy Bhaskar (1944-2014)

Revue du MAUSS, 2015
Cet article est un hommage au philosophe britannique Roy Bhaskar, tenu pour l’un des principaux épistémologues contemporain des sciences sociales, fondateur du réalisme critique, mouvement théorique à peu près inconnu en France.
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Did Ludwig Wittgensteinreallyunderstand Roy Bhaskar?

Alethia, 2000
(2000). Did Ludwig Wittgenstein really understand Roy Bhaskar? Alethia: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 22-28.
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Roy Bhaskar (1944–2014): The Idea of a University

2020
A university is a site of knowledge production. However, this settles hardly anything at all. The construction of knowledge always comes before two other important human activities: ethics and learning. Both supervene on epistemology. This chapter provides an account of a university and its purposes, developed by one of the most significant ...
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Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism and the Social Science of Marxian Economics

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2018
This article supports claims that critical realism philosophy of science, as refounded in the hands of Roy Bhaskar, offers valuable knowledge enhancing insight into the advancement of Marx’s research program. However, it maintains that key principles set out by Bhaskar have not been adequately assimilated by those working with critical realism in the ...
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Science Education as Emancipatory: The case of Roy Bhaskar's philosophy of meta‐Reality

Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2006
In this essay, I argue that Roy Bhaskar's philosophy of meta‐Reality creates the middle way to theorize emancipation in critical science education: between empiricism and idealism on the one hand, and naive realism and relativism, on the other hand. This theorization offers possibilities to transcend the usual dichotomies and dualisms that are often ...
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The application of critical realism as a basis for agency in environmental education: The case of Roy Bhaskar

Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2019
AbstractThis article will investigate the philosophy of science of Roy Bhaskar (1944–2014) as a coherent basis for environmental education. The work of Bhaskar serves as an in-depth approach to understanding how to apply critical realism (the critical and the realist) to matters such as environmental education, because he concretely theorises the ...
Mehri Mirzaei Rafe, Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast, Afzal Sadat Hosseini, Narges Sajadieh   +3 more
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