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2、’—S.Korner,TimesLiterarySupplement,1975.Nowacknowledgedasaclassicinthephilosophyofscience,ARealistTheoryofScienceisoneoftheveryfewbookswhichhastransformednotonlyourunderstandingofscience,butthatofthenatureoftheworlditstudies.Sinceitsoriginalpublicationin1975,thebookhasinspiredthemulti-disciplinar
3、yandinternationalmovementofthoughtknownas‘criticalrealism’,anditsideashavebeeninfluentialacrossthewholespectrumofthesciences,artsandhumanitiesandinadiversearrayofsocialpracticesandprofessions.AnewintroductiontothiseditionbyMervynHartwigdescribesthecontext,significanceandimpactofARealistTheoryofSc
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5、eality.HeisaneditorofCriticalRealism:EssentialReadingsandwasthefoundingchairoftheCentreforCriticalRealism.CurrentlyheisaWorldScholarattheUniversityofLondonInstituteofEducation.MervynHartwigisfoundingeditoroftheJournalofCriticalRealismandeditorofADictionaryofCriticalRealism.ClassicalTextsinCritica
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7、OX144RNSimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanadabyRoutledge270MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusinessThiseditionpublishedintheTaylor&Francise-Library,2008.“Topurchasey
