Critical Realism

[Dave Monroe]

I attempted to hack my way unsuccessfully through a
coupla Bhaskar books somewhere after my Feyerabend
period (which I've arguably never exited, I suppose). 
I don't recall much about 'em (Feyerabend had at least
the decency to be entertaining, albeit nastily so), or
Norris' recent book on quantum physics, except that I
never quite figured out just what they were
complaining about.  but I've been morre about the
history rather than the philosophy of science for some
time now, so ...

Ditto, to a lesser extent, Sokal 'n' Bricmont, who I
think weren't entirely off in their identifications of
certain excesses on teh part of yr various
poststructuralists (Derrida excepted, they left him
largely alone as he dabbles at best in scientific
rhetoric), but they also seemed all too eager to miss
the point that the scientific, technical, whatever
terms they deploy are pretty clearly deployed as
tropes, not AS scientific/technical terms ...  

--- Mike Weaver <mikeweaver at gn.apc.org> wrote:
> Ghetta posts:
> 
> >http://www.philosophynow.org/issue42/42caldwell.htm
>
> Roy Bhaskar the so called "founding father of
> critical realism" is one of those unreadable
> intellectuals who needs to take a course in
> communication before he puts pen to paper.
> Critical Realism goes back to Gramsci at least.

Now Gramsci, him I like.  But thanks for posting that
link, I've forwarded it around a bit now.  This is why
I don't complain about off-topic posts here, I learn a
lot--and soemtimes even pass it on--no matter what ...

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