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Roy Bhaskar

British philosopher (1944-2014) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 70

Ram Roy Bhaskar was an English philosopher of science who is best known as the initiator of the philosophical movement of critical realism (CR).

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Bhaskar argued that the task of science is "the production of the knowledge of those enduring and continually active mechanisms of nature that produce the phenomena of the world", rather than the discovery of quantitative laws, and that experimental science makes sense only if such mechanisms exist and operate outside the lab as well as inside it.

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United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1944 to 2014 · aged 70