Download or read book A Realist Theory of Science written by Roy Bhaskar and published by Verso. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first edition in 1975, 'A Realist Theory of Science' has inspired the multi-disciplinary and international movement of thought known as 'critical realism'. Re-issued with a new introduction, the book revindicates ontology, critiquing the reduction of being in favour of knowledge, which Bhaskar calls the 'epistemic fallacy'.