The problem of critical ontology

McWherter Dustin

Book

The problem of critical ontology

Bhaskar contra Kant

Dustin McWherter

Abstract

Dustin McWherter defends the possibility of critical ontology by pitting Roy Bhaskar's attempt to rehabilitate ontology in the philosophy of science against Kant's attempt to replace traditional ontology with an account of cognitive experience.

Details | Table of Contents

Introduction Dustin McWherter

pp.1-5

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002723_1

Ontology and critical philosophy Dustin McWherter

pp.6-20

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002723_2

Ontology and empirical realism Dustin McWherter

pp.21-44

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002723_3

Transcendental idealism and ontological agnosticism Dustin McWherter

pp.45-66

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002723_4

Kant's conception of natural necessity Dustin McWherter

pp.67-85

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002723_5

Bhaskar's transcendental analysis of experimental activity Dustin McWherter

pp.86-115

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002723_6

Natural necessity and the transcendentally real Dustin McWherter

pp.116-141

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002723_7

Conclusion Dustin McWherter

pp.142-148

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002723_8

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2013

Pages: 187

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-43393-3

ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-00272-3

Full citation:

McWherter Dustin (2013) The problem of critical ontology: Bhaskar contra Kant. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.