Ontologies, depth, and otherwise: Critical notes on Wight's meta-theoretical proposal of a scientific realist IR

Review of International Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 223-234

  Weber, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 84855854044     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: 14699044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210511000659     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Colin Wight, Agents, Structures and International Relations-Politics as Ontology (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2006), pp. 23-6.
2. Wight, Agents, p. 98.
3. Colin Wight, 'Manifesto for Scientific Realism in IR: Assuming the can-opener won't work', Millennium Journal of International Studies, 35:2 (2006), pp. 379-98.
4. I've taken this, marking amendments and omissions, from Wight, Agents, pp. 296-7.
5. Karl Marx, Capital - A Critique of Political Economy. Volume 1 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983), p. 131.
6. Roy Bhaskar, The Possibility of Naturalism. A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences. 3rd edn (London: Routledge, 1998), p. 52.
7. Marx, Capital v. 1, pp. 93-4.
8. See, for instance, Tony Lawson, Economics and Reality (London: Routledge, 1997).
9. See Geoffrey Ingham, 'Money is a social relation', Review of Social Economy, 54:4 (1996), pp. 507-29. (Pubitemid 127006738)
10. Lawson, Economics, p. 32.
11. Axel Honneth, 'Critical Theory', The Fragmented World of the Social (New York: SUNY Press, 1995)
12. Lawson, Economics, p. 38.
13. See G. Vico, The New Science (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968).
14. Wight, Agents, p. 298.
15. Marshall D. Sahlins, Stone Age Economics (London: Routledge, 2004).