Capitalism and Social Theory: Essays and Inquiry: Essays and Inquiry by Rajani K. Kanth

Author:Rajani K. Kanth [Kanth, Rajani K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Political Science, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, General
ISBN: 9781317475392
Google: X_8vCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-17T06:55:40+00:00

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ECONOMICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY:

TOWARD MATERIALISM

…Realism is not a theory of knowledge or truth, but of being—although as such it is bound to possess epistemological implications. Accordingly, a realist position in the philosophy of (natural) sciences will consist, first and foremost, of a theory about the nature of being, rather than the knowledge of the objects investigated by the science—to the effect that they endure and operate independently of human activity, and hence of both sense-experience and thought. So Realism is immediately opposed to both empiricism and rationalism, wherein being is defined in terms of the human attributes of experience and reason.

—R. Bhaskar, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation

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