Realist agency and phenomenological subjectivity: friends or foes?
In defending 'analytical dualism', Margaret Archer drew on a more objectivist reading of phenomenology to support her critical realist conception of human agency. In developing the philosophy of metaReality and its central tenet of 'non-duality', Roy Bhaskar articulated a unified vision of human age...
| Published in: | Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 303 - 325 |
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Jun2025
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