Harré and his critics : essays in honour of Rom Harré with his commentary on them

Introduction : Realism And Human Being / Roy Bhaskar -- Perception And Human Reality / Marjorie Grene -- Modest Realism, Experience And Evolution / Peter Manicas -- Reason And Reality : A Prolegomenon To Their Varieties / J.r. Lucas -- Experimental Realism / Jerry Aronson -- The Scientist As Homo Loquens / Roy Harris -- New Tasks For The Philosophy Of Physics / John Roche -- Realism And The Global Topology Of Space-time / Robert Weingard -- Undressing Baby Bell / Michael Redhead -- An Empirical Interpretation Of Ethogenics / Michael Argyle -- I Don't Know Why I Did It / Tony Crowle -- 'subjects' Versus 'persons' In Social Psychological Research / Paul F. Secord -- A Concise Theory Of Dialectics / Jean-pierre De Waele -- Rom Harré : Realism And The Turn To Social Constructionism / John Shotter -- The Realism Of The Symbolic / Charles W. Smith. Work In Organizations As Social Activity / Jose Luis Rodriguez Lpez -- Are Selves Real? / Uffe J. Jensen -- Hysteria, Belief And Magic / David Taylor -- Ordinary Animals, Language Animals And Verbal Tradition / Vernon Reynolds -- Exploring The Human Umwelt / Rom Harré. Edited By Roy Bhaskar. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The essays presented here explore issues raised by Harre on a range of topics in the philosophy of the natural and human sciences. Among the subjects discussed are compatibility of relativism and realism, and of realism and social constructionism and the nature of the self.