Of babies and bathwater. A review of Tuukka Kaidesoja (2013) Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology
Dave Elder-Vass
2134/18385
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Of_babies_and_bathwater_A_review_of_Tuukka_Kaidesoja_2013_Naturalizing_Critical_Realist_Social_Ontology/9475073
Tuukka Kaidesoja’s new book is a welcome addition to the literature on
critical realism. He shows good judgement in defending Roy Bhaskar’s argument
for causal powers while criticising its framing as a transcendental argument.
In criticising Bhaskar’s concept of a real-but-not-actual ontological domain,
however, he discards an essential element of a realist ontology, even a naturalised
one: a recognition of the transfactual aspect of causal power.
2015-07-31 12:29:30
Critical realism
Real causal powers
Roy Bhaskar
Social ontology
Transcendental arguments
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified