Enlightened common sense II: clarifying and developing the concepts of intransitivity and domains of reality

Holland, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1720-1576, 2019. Enlightened common sense II: clarifying and developing the concepts of intransitivity and domains of reality. Journal of Critical Realism, 18 (2), pp. 189-210. ISSN 1476-7430

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Abstract

In this article, the second of a series of four articles that engage critically with the arguments of two recent and significant additions to the literature on critical realism (Bhaskar’s Enlightened Common Sense: The Philosophy of Critical Realism and Bhaskar et al.’s Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing: A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity), I present the results of a critical engagement with other categories of original or basic critical realism. Using the method of immanent critique and focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the arguments of Enlightened Common Sense, I identify, and propose solutions to, a range of problems pertaining to the concepts of intransitivity, the domains of the real and the subjective, and the domain of the actual. In identifying and resolving these problems, my aim is to clarify and develop the categories of original critical realism and thereby ensure that critical realism as a whole is as effective an underlabourer for science as it can be.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Critical Realism
Creators:	Holland, D.
Publisher:	Routledge
Date:	2019
Volume:	18
Number:	2
ISSN:	1476-7430
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/14767430.2019.1600122 DOI 914193 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	16 Apr 2019 11:51
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2021 15:34
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/36280

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