The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences Book

	Foreword to the Third Edition
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
	Acknowledgements
Ch. 1	Transcendental Realism and the Problem of Naturalism
	The Problem of Naturalism	1
	How is a Philosophy of Science Possible?	4
	Experiment and Application: The Intransitive Dimension	9
	Discovery and Development: The Transitive Dimension	11
	The Social Sciences and Philosophy	13
	Towards a New Critical Naturalism	17
Ch. 2	Societies
	Against Individualism	27
	On the Society/Person Connection	31
	Some Emergent Properties of Social Systems	37
	On the Limits of Naturalism	44
	Social Science as Critique: Facts, Values and Theories	54
Ch. 3	Agency
	Agents, Reasons and Causes I: Objections to Naturalism	83
	Agents, Reasons and Causes II: Naturalism Vindicated	90
	Emergent Powers and Materialism I: Against Reductionism	97
	Emergent Powers and Materialism II: In Defence of Transcategorial Causality	101
	Rational Explanation	107
Ch. 4	Philosophies
	Metaphilosophical Preliminaries	120
	The Critique of the Positivist Tradition: Explanation, Prediction and Confirmation	124
	The Critique of the Hermeneutical Tradition I: Concepts, Reasons and Rules	132
	The Critique of the Hermeneutical Tradition II: Explanation and Understanding	140
	The Hermeneutical Circle and The Logic of Emancipation	152
	Postscript	167
	Notes	179
	Bibliography	182
	Index of Names	189
	Index of Subjects	192