General introduction
PART I Transcendental realism and science
1 Introduction: Basic texts and developments
2 Philosophy and scientific realism
3 The logic of scientific discovery
4 Conceptual and natural necessity
5 Abstraction: A realist interpretation
6 Economic science without experimentation / Abstraction
PART II Critical naturalism and social science
7 Introduction: Realism in the social sciences
8 Societies
9 Stratified explanation and Marx's conception of history
10 Realism and social science
11 Realism and social science: Some comments on Roy Bhaskar's 'The Possibility of Naturalism'
12 A realist social science
13 Four concepts of social structure
14 Realism and morphogenesis
PART III The theory of explanatory critiques
15 Introduction: Explanatory critiques
16 Reason as dialectic: Science, social science and socialist Sclence
17 Facts and values: Theory and practice / Reason and the dialectic of human emancipation / Depth, rationality and change
18 Explanation and emancipation
19 Neutrality in the social sciences: On Bhaskar's argument for an essential emancipatory impulse in social science
20 Addressing the cultural system
21 The praxiology of legal judgement
PART IV Dialectic and dialectical critical realism
22 Introduction: Dialectic and dialectical critical realism
23 Critical realism and dialectic
24 Dialectical critical realism and ethics
25 The power of negative thinking
26 Realism and formalism in ethics
27 The limits of justice: Finding fault in the criminal law
28 Between structure and difference: Law's relationality
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