In this concise text, Roy Bhaskar sets out to diagnose, explain and resolve the 'problems of philosophy'. Plato Etc reviews all the main areas of the subject: the theory of knowledge and philosophy of science; the philosophy of logic and language; the philosophies of space, time and causality; the philosophy of the social and life sciences and of dialectic; ethics, politics and aesthetics; and the history and sociology of philosophy.
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INTRODUCTION, PREFACE, 1 IS PHILOSOPHY WORTH IT? , 2 EXPLANATION AND THE LAWS OF NATURE, 3 REFERENCE, TRUTH AND MEANING, 4 CAUSALITY, CHANGE AND EMERGENCE, 5 MAKING IT HAPPEN (SOCIAL AGENCY), 6 DIALECTIC, 7 LIVING WELL, 8 DIALECTICAL CRITICAL REALISM, 9 SOCRATES AND SO ON? , 10 PHILOSOPHY AND THE DIALECTIC OF EMANCIPATION, APPENDIX: EXPLAINING PHILOSOPHIES, NOTES, GLOSSARY, INDEX
