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Subject: BHA: Critical realism in context
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:09:06 -0500
From: "Groff, Ruth" <ruth.groff-AT-marquette.edu>


Hi all,

I've got two questions about the way in which RB situated (or didn't situate) his work in RTS.  I am not asking these questions as a backhanded way of criticizing him; this can be done in with a forehand if necessary.  

What I'm wondering about is this: does anyone know if Bhaskar has ever said anything about (a) why he didn't characterize what he was doing in RTS as very specifically extending and developing Harre's position; and/or (b) why he (or Harre for that matter) didn't locate the work against the backdrop of the existing Critical Realist critique of Hume (well worked out in the Journal of Philosophy and in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in the 20s and 30s especially, but starting earlier, and continuing through to the 50s)?

Has anyone ever had a conversation with Bhaskar about this, that they'd be willing to share?  Did he just not know about the existing body of critical realist work?  [This seems plausible, since his background was not in philosophy.  Harre's work he would have known, so that's a different question.]  Should I just write to him directly and ask him?

Thanks,
Ruth   


     


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