Talk:Roy Bhaskar

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This article calls Bhaskar the "originator" of critical realism, but our article on that subject refers to Bhaskar only as the figure most associated with recent critical realism. This seems to hinge on what exactly we allow to fall under the label "critical realism", so perhaps should be clarified. --Delirium 09:23, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

As far as I understand it, Critical Realism is a name that's used by several unrelated schools of thought. I'm only familiar with Bhaskar's Critical Realism and he was certainly the originator of that school (it's almost exclusively based on his works). Blankfrackis (talk) 23:57, 22 May 2008 (UTC)