ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF CRITICAL REALIST UNDERLABOURING A Response to Heikki Patomaki's 'After Critical Realism?'

Heikki Patomaki claims, in 'After Critical Realism?', that Roy Bhaskar's early critical realism is inadequate to the contemporary natural and social sciences. He claims that Bhaskar defends anthropomorphic conceptions of causality; fails to recognise real change; and fails to underlabour for futures studies. These claims are based on a series of misunderstandings, notably about the nature and implications of under-labouring. Underlabouring is discussed in terms of the disclosure and transformation of the deep categorial structures of science and theory.