- Title
- A vitalist critique of Critical Realism
- Creator
- Juniper, James
- Relation
- Eighth Australian Society of Heterodox Economist Conference. Society of Heterodox Economists: Proceedings, Refereed Papers (Sydney, N.S.W. 8-9 December, 2008) p. 143-153
- Relation
- http://www.economics.unsw.edu.au/nps/servlet/portalservice?GI_ID=System.LoggedOutInheritableArea&maxWnd=_Economics_SHE_2008Conf
- Publisher
- Society of Heterodox Economists
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- The paper compares Whitehead's Process Philosophy with Critical Realism, arguing that the former offers a more comprehensive philosophical frame for heterodox political economy than the latter on ontological, epistemological and ethico-political grounds. It argues that Critical Realism, in building on post-war Epistemological debates amongst Analytical philosophers, reduces all of the non-philosophical conditions of philosophy-science, art, love, and politics-to that of science, per se. Furthermore, it contends that Critical Realism exposes question of epistemology to a further reduction insofar as questions of truth are interpreted in terms of the "logic of scientific discovery". In contrast, due to its reliance upon the Spinozan metaphysical tradition, Whitehead's non-organic Vitalism can avail itself of both Spinoza's hermeneutic "critique of ideology" and his activist and collective political philosophy.
- Subject
- Critical Realism; heterodox political economy; analytical philosophers; epistemology
- Identifier
- uon:6440
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803582
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780733427183
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