Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:31:36 -0400 (EDT)
To: bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: BHA: BASIC QUESTION ON READINGS


Ralph, i always recommend Outhwaite's "New Philosophies ..." as an
introductory text to Critical Realism.  But of course, if you remember you
not only have a copy of this book, you have read it ... it is the realist
text comparing CR to hermeneutics and critical theory.  

>From there you should do quick read of both RTS and PON ... Reclaiming
Reality is o.k. but i don't feel it to be successful as an introductory text.
 It functions better as a quick re-read of Bhaskar.  In any event, you should
defintely take a look at Plato Etc. and Dialectic (in that order); you won't
necessarily need to have read RTS or PON ... but it won't hurt if you do:-)
 You are so well rehearsed in Marxian philosophy and philosophy of science
that RTS will be a quick read, and DCR won't cause any more problem than it
does for the rest of us.

hans


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