Fail better: response to Holland. Issue 1 (1st January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hartwig, Mervyn
• Is Part Of: Journal of critical realism. Volume 18:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 83
• Page End: 90
• Publication Date: 2019-01-01
• Subjects: Critical realism -- dialectical critical realism -- hermeneutic adequacy -- immanent critique -- irrealism -- analytical reason -- principle of hermeticism -- transcendent critique -- metaReality; Critical realism -- Periodicals; Réalisme critique; 149.205
• DOI: 10.1080/14767430.2019.1581532
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-7430

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This is a response to Dominic Holland's critique of Roy Bhaskar's posthumous Enlightened Common Sense, which I edited. Holland claims that his critique is immanent, but I argue that it is not, on two interrelated counts: it fails to achieve hermeneutic adequacy; and criticizes Bhaskar's arguments and positions using mainly transcendent, not immanent, criteria.