THE POWER OF ABSENCE.
This essay calls attention to robust synergies between Roy Bhaskar's philosophy of dialectical critical realism (DCR) and Terrence W. Deacon's recent investigation of the geo-historical emergence of ententional or teleological phenomena (Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Mailer; Norton 2012),...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 210 - 244 |
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2013
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