This volume is a collection of new, published and revised essays, providing a distinctive, thoroughgoing, realist approach to contemporary psychological theorie

This is the first dedicated text to explain and explore the utility of critical realism for psychologists, offering it as a helpful middle ground between positi

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The book provides an argument why realism is a viable metatheoretical framework for psychological science. By looking at some variations of realism such as scie

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