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Author:   Roy Bhaskar ,  Petter Naess (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo, Norway) ,  Karl Høyer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9780415692328

ISBN 10:   0415692326
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   29 September 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Critical realism in resonance with Nordic ecophilosophy: ecophilosophical themes in the development of critical realism By: Roy Bhaskar. Nature, Technology and Environmental Crisis By: Arne Johan Vetlesen. Towards an Ecophilosophy: The Nordic Contributors, By: Karl G. Høyer. A Biosophic Perspective. Humans as a Tragic Species, By: Peter Wessel Zapffe. The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects By: Arne Næss. Gaia versus Servoglobe By: Sigmund Kvaløy Setereng. The Myths of Progress, By: Georg Henrik von Wright. The Extension of Time and the Order of Things By: Torsten Hägerstrand. Human Rights and Ecology as Premises for Practical Standpoints By: Jon Wetlesen. From Ecophilosophy to Degrowth,By: Karl G. Høyer and Petter Næss. Ecophilosophy, Precaution, and Theory of Science, By: Karl G. Høyer. Between Critical Realism and Nordic Ecophilosophy, By: Trond Jakobsen.

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[This book] will appeal to philosophically informed and inquiring scientists, planners, geographers - all those of us who knowingly intervene in the world. [...] The pleasure [...] of this book lies in hearing the early ecophilosophers in their own voices together with today's generation as they make sense of the same serious themes and concerns in the context of ever more pressing environmental issues using the structuring insights from critical realism. Sarah E. Cornell, Stockholm University, Sweden, in Journal of Critical Realism

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"Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism, and the author of many acclaimed and influential works including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, Plato Etc., From Science to Emancipation and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism. He is an editor of Critical Realism: Essential Readings and Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change and was the founding chair of the Centre for Critical Realism. He is currently a World Scholar at the University of London Institute of Education. Karl-Georg Hoyer is Professor and Research Director at Oslo University College. He holds a Master's Degree in technology and a PhD in social sciences with a dissertation on ""Sustainable Mobility"". Most of Hoyer's research is related to sustainable development, with a main focus on transport and energy. Petter Nass is Professor in Urban Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark, with part-time position at Oslo University College, Norway. Main research interests: land use and travel; impacts and driving forces of urban development; philosophy of science. His most recent book is Urban Structure Matters (Routledge, 2006)."

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