Bhaskar's philosophy as third generation systems theory, with implications for ethics and earth system stability.
Bhaskar's philosophy supports society via a process of homeostasis to resist socioecological system disintegration by developing its values and ethics in response to endogenous and exogenous change. To the contrary, positivist (first generation) and hermeneuticist (second generation) approaches to s...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 22; no. 5; pp. 771 - 790 |
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Oct2023
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