Of Babies and Bathwater. A Review of Tuukka Kaidesoja Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology

Tuukka Kaidesoja’s new book is a welcome addition to the literature on critical realism. He shows good judgement in defending Roy Bhaskar’s argument for causal powers while criticising its framing as a transcendental argument. In criticising Bhaskar’s concept of a real-but-not-actual ontological do...

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Main Author: Dave Elder-Vass
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Vienna 2015-07-01
Series:Journal of Social Ontology
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Online Access:https://journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/jso/article/view/6866