The Formation of Critical Realism

This series of interviews, conducted in the form of exchanges between Roy Bhaskar - the originator of critical realism (and the later philosophy of meta-reality) - and Mervyn Hartwig, a leading commentator on critical realism, tells a riveting story of the formation and development of critical realism.

1 Childhood and adolescence: dialectic of alienation and wholeness (1944-1963) 2 Oxford days: carrying through the Copernican revolution in the philosophy of science (1963-1973) 3 Beyond empiricism and transcendental idealism: transcendental realism and the critique of classical modernism (1973-1975) 4 The critical realist embrace: critical naturalism (1975-1979) 5 'Prolegomenon to a natural history of the human species': explanatory critique (1979-1986) 6 The axiology of freedom: dialectical critical realism (1986-1994) 7 The spiritual turn: transcendental dialectical critical realism (1994-2000) 8 The philosophy of unity-in-difference: meta-Reality (2000-2002) 9 Where do we go from here?: applied critical realism and beyond (2002- )