Una explicación realista crítica de las controversias historiográficas: Roy Bhaskar y la intransitividad del pasado histórico.

TOZZI, VERÓNICA

Cuadernos de Filosofía

Instituto de Filosofía Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UBA

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2000 vol. 47 p. 33 - 50

0590-1901

The defense of realism in philosophy of history has not received a sistematic attention. Differently from philosophy of social sciences, where the realist accounts are a consistent program of research, in our discipline the realist tendence limits itself to show the selfrefutatory character of most of the antirealist arguments. Ins this paper I will consider the so called Critical Realism in order to demonstrate how a critical realist philosophy gives a better explanation to certain aspects of historical knowledge that have been always misunderstood as signs of antirealism. Critical Realism gives an account, in realistic terms, of the unavoidable coexistence of multiple interpretations of the past as well as the unavoidable complexity reveled by each of them. The paper critics the naturalistic compromise that Critical Realism assumes by showing that the reality of present and past societies can be established without that compromise.