How to change reality: story vs. structure-- a debate between / The intersecting paths of critical relations : multiple realities, the inner planet and three dimensional worlds / Reading Foucault as a realist / The ethogenics of agency and structure : a metaphysical problem / Where is social structure? / Metaphors of social complexity / Sociology and epistemology / Critical realism and quantum mechanics : some introductory bearings / Why are sociologists naturephobes? / Critical realism and political ecology / Keeping it real : a critique of postmodern theories of cyberspace / Is computing really for women? A critical realist approach to gender issues in computing / Truth in fiction, science and criticism / Reconsidering literary interpretation / Vaporising the real : artificiality, millennial anxiety and the "End of history" / Rorty on pragmaticism, liberalism and the self / Realism and research, philosophy and poverty politics : the example of smoking / Descartes' individualistic epistemology--a critique / Social movements and science : the question of plural knowledge systems / Do realists run regressions? / Marx, Hegel and the specificity of the political / Critical realism in light of Marx's process of abstraction / On real and nominal absences