This book, first published in 1989, brings together nine essays or articles on diverse topics. To a large extent, they can be read as recapitulating his 1975 account of "A Realist Theory of Science," which is helpful in clarifying the key themes of that work, while demonstrating that his account sup...
This is a tough read for a "civilian." One explanation for the dense academic style is that it was produced as Bhaskar's PhD thesis at Oxford University and it is curious that it was rejected twice, in earlier drafts, possibly because it cheerfully proposed that a lot of important philosophers were...