Re: [Critical-Realism] Powers,processes, etc.

[<gdemetrion@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry all,

I botched the last portion of the last email. Here's a better version.

George Demetrion

So the shoe that fits applies to many feet.  The issue is not to point figures as this problem is grounded in the history of the development of the academic disciplines where specialization, in itself a highly desirable trait has taken on aura of mystification of its own which in many significant ways has the pragmatic effect of short-circuiting the search for truth at a high level of interdisciplinary discourse, particularly among related schools of thought where a critical search for convergences has a great deal to offer, including that of putting differences into more balanced perspective

Thus I wonder about Bhaskar's claim that critical realism is the most adequate philosophy to get at these critical issues even with the important emphasis he places on ontology.  Perhaps here Ruth's pointing us to scientific essentialsim could open up some interesting doors.
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