Elaborating Naturalized Critical Realism: Response to Ruth Groff, Dave Elder-Vass, Daniel Little and Petri Ylikoski

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This paper is a reply to the discussions of Ruth Groff, Dave Elder-Vass, Daniel Little, and Petri Ylikoski of Tuukka Kaidesoja (2013): Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology (London: Routledge).

Keywords

• critical realism
• naturalist philosophy of social science
• transcendental arguments
• causal powers
• social structure
• social system
• social mechanism
• roy bhaskar
• robert merton
• mario bunge