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The Problem of Critical Ontology

Bhaskar Contra Kant

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Dustin McWherter
    Pages 1-5
  3. Ontology and Critical Philosophy

    • Dustin McWherter
    Pages 6-20
  4. Ontology and Empirical Realism

    • Dustin McWherter
    Pages 21-44
  5. Kant’s Conception of Natural Necessity

    • Dustin McWherter
    Pages 67-85
  6. Natural Necessity and the Transcendentally Real

    • Dustin McWherter
    Pages 116-141
  7. Conclusion

    • Dustin McWherter
    Pages 142-148
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 149-187

About this book

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.

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“It explores in detail the Kantian position to test its capacity to respond to a critical realist variety of critique based on transcendental argument. … The Problem of Critical Ontology is also more broadly a contribution to a wider body of work that is expanding the breadth and depth of argumentation within and about critical realism – which is surely a sign of a thriving discourse.” (Jamie Morgan, Journal of Critical Realism, Vol. 15 (1), February, 2016)

Authors and Affiliations

  • American University of Beirut, Lebanon

    Dustin McWherter

About the author

DUSTIN MCWHERTER is Lecturer in Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He has published articles in Kantian Review and Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy.

 
 

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