Précis of Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology
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critical realism, social ontology, naturalist philosophy of social science, causal power, essentialism, Roy BhaskarAbstract
This paper introduces and contextualizes my book Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology (London: Routledge, 2013).
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