Original Articles

Transcendental realism defended: a response to Allan

Published in: South African Journal of Philosophy
Volume 17 , issue 3 , 1998 , pages: 198–210

DOI: 10.1080/02580136.1998.10878161

Author(s): David Spurrett Department of Philosophy, South Africa

Abstract

It is argued against Allan that Bhaskar's transcendental realism is not self-defeatingly relativist, that his analysis of experiment is supportable and that his philosophical ontology can be defended without returning to a correspondence notion of truth.

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