Roy Bhaskar
| Roy Bhaskar | |
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| Born |
15 May 1944 Teddington, England |
| Died | 19 November 2014 (aged 70) Leeds, England |
| Alma mater |
Balliol College, Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School |
Analytic philosophy Critical realism |
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Main interests
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philosophy of the social sciences |
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Notable ideas
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Critical realism, transcendental realism |
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Influences
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Ram Roy Bhaskar (15 May 1944 – 19 November 2014) was a British philosopher best known as the initiator of the philosophical movement of critical realism (CR). He was a World Scholar at the Institute of Education, University College London.
Bhaskar was born in Teddington, London, the first of two sons. His Indian father and English mother were Theosophists. Bhaskar said his childhood was unhappy, his father having high expectations of him.
In 1963 Bhaskar attended Balliol College, Oxford on a scholarship to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. The scholarship freed him from his father's influence over his chosen academic path. Having graduated with first class honours in 1966, he began work on a PhD thesis about the relevance of economic theory for under-developed countries. His PhD changed course and was completed at Nuffield College, Oxford on the philosophy of social science and then the philosophy of science.Rom Harré became his supervisor, and his thesis became the basis of the classic text, A Realist Theory of Science in 1975.
Bhaskar lectured at the University of Edinburgh from 1975, later moving to the University of Sussex. He held visiting positions in several Scandinavian universities-adjunct professor in philosophy at the Centre for Peace Studies at the University of Tromsö, Norway, and guest professor in philosophy and social science, Department of Caring Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden. From 2007 Bhaskar was employed at the Institute of Education in London where he was working on the application of CR to Peace Studies. He was a founding member of the Centre for Critical Realism, International Association for Critical Realism and the International Centre for Critical Realism (2011), the latter at the Institute of Education.
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