Elaborating Naturalized Critical Realism: Response to Ruth Groff, Dave Elder-Vass, Daniel Little and Petri Ylikoski

Authors

  • Tuukka Kaidesoja University of Turku

Keywords:

critical realism, naturalist philosophy of social science, transcendental arguments, causal power, social structure, social system, social mechanism, Roy Bhaskar, Robert Merton, Mario Bunge

Abstract

This paper is a reply to the discussions of Ruth Groff, Dave Elder-Vass, Daniel Little, and Petri Ylikoski of Tuukka Kaidesoja (2013): Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology (London: Routledge).

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2015-07-04

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Kaidesoja, Tuukka. 2015. “Elaborating Naturalized Critical Realism: Response to Ruth Groff, Dave Elder-Vass, Daniel Little and Petri Ylikoski”. Journal of Social Ontology 1 (2). Vienna, Austria:359-75. https://journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/jso/article/view/6870.

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2015)

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