Ontological Explorations

New and Published Books

1-10 of 31 results in Ontological Explorations

1. Childhoods Real and Imagined

   Volume 1: An introduction to critical realism and childhood studies

   By Priscilla Alderson

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   "This book is unusually rewarding in that its author has pulled off the rare trick of providing deep philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to a comprehensive reconsideration of childhood. Priscilla Alderson deploys Bhaskar's 'dialectical critical realism' to excellent effect, illuminating not...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. Toward Non-dual Emancipation

   Roy Bhaskar’s Meta-philosophical Journey of Dualism, Duality and Non-duality

   By Seo MinGyu

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Since the publication of Roy Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science in 1975, critical realism has been evolved as one of the new developments in the areas of philosophy of natural and social science which offers an alternatively fresh view to the existing theories including positivism and...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Philosophy and Systems Thinking

   A Mutual Synergy

   By John Mingers

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Philosophy and Systems Thinking seeks to re-address the whole question of philosophy and systems thinking for the twenty first century and provide a new work that would be of value to both systems and philosophy. This is a highly opportune time when different fields – critical realism,...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Engaging with the World

   Agency, Institutions, Historical Formations

   Edited by Margaret S Archer, Andrea Maccarini

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   This title reflects the general theme of the 2010 IACR annual conference that was held in Padova, Italy, the aim of which was to provide a fresh view on some cultural and structural changes involving Western societies after the world economic crisis of 2008, from the point of view of...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. A Realist Theory of Art History

   By Ian Verstegen

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   As the theoretical alignments within academia shift, this book introduces a surprising variety of realism to abolish the old positivist-theory dichotomy that has haunted Art History. Demanding frankly the referential detachment of the objects under study, the book proposes a stratified,...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. Ontology Revisited

   Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy

   By Ruth Groff

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral as it may seem. Even the most deontological of theories connects up with an attendant set of philosophical commitments regarding what kinds of...

   Published August 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Eurocentrism: a marxian critical realist critique

   By Nick Hostettler

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   The political and social structures of modernity are dominated by really eurocentric forms and relations, yet the theorisation of the eurocentricity of modernity remains barely developed. At the same time, modern political and social theory is fundamentally eurocentric, yet the critique of...

   Published June 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory

   "I move therefore I am"

   By Brenda Farnell

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate a concept of dynamic embodiment, one that positions human body movement, and not just ‘the body’ at...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Relational Sociology

   A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences

   By Pierpaolo Donati

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   ‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The convergence of two highly compatible versions of Critical Realism from two independent sources is a striking exception. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview

    Volume 1: Illustrations and Philosophical Preliminaries

    By David Tyfield

    Series: Ontological Explorations

    Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks...

    Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge