by Mark Carrigan | Jun 8, 2020 | Homepage, News & Events
The criticalrealismnetwork.org site was originally created by the impressive Human Flourishing and Critical Realism project (and the subsequent Beyond Positivism project), based in the Sociology Department of Yale University and funded by the Templeton...
by Dave Elder-Vass | Oct 30, 2020 | What is Critical Realism?
A guest post by Tom Fryer. A short guide to ontology and epistemology: why everyone should be a critical realist argues that positivism’s search for universal laws is like looking for a Ferrari at your local supermarket, and constructivism’s denial of reality seems...
by Dave Elder-Vass | Oct 16, 2020 | News & Events
Guest post from Lene Nyhus On behalf of the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize Committee 2020 I have the pleasure of announcing the following: About the Prize: The Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize is awarded annually for a book or article that constitutes, motivates or...
by Dave Elder-Vass | Oct 16, 2020 | Theoretical Reflections
A guest post by Hubert Buch-Hansen and Peter Nielsen When we decided in 2019 to frame our book Critical Realism: Basics and Beyond around the topic of crisis, we had no idea that a new global health crisis was lurking around the corner. The COVID-19 outbreak was...
by Dave Elder-Vass | Sep 25, 2020 | News & Events
Dear IACR members and friends, We are looking forward to seeing you at the IACR conference this year! Website: https://iacr2020.uksw.edu.pl/ Abstract deadline: September 28thThe abstracts can be sent to email IACR.Warsaw2020@gmail.com Pre-conference: EUR 10Conference...
by Mark Carrigan | Sep 3, 2020 | News & Events
By Mark Carrigan and Dave Elder-Vass Online events are likely to be a dominant feature in the academic landscape for the foreseeable future. This is a transition which was already slowly beginning to happen on both environmental and accessibility grounds, with a...
by Dave Elder-Vass | Aug 11, 2020 | Theoretical Reflections
A guest post by Joseph E. Davis Since the 1980s a profound but quiet shift has taken place in how ordinary Americans think about the roots of mental health problems, including what might be called everyday suffering. Large population surveys of lay mental health...
by Dave Elder-Vass | Aug 6, 2020 | Emergence and Stratification, News & Events, Podcasts and Videocasts
There are wo new bite-size video lectures from our colleagues at the CR Network – Asia Pacific: 1. BITE-SIZE LECTURE 05: THE CRITICAL REALIST THEORY OF ONTOLOGICAL...
by Dave Elder-Vass | Jul 11, 2020 | News & Events
The International Association for Critical Realism is happy to announce that the website for the 2020 IACR annual conference is available: https://iacr2020.uksw.edu.pl/ The conference will be fully online, and is being organised by the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński...
by Dave Elder-Vass | Jul 1, 2020 | News & Events, Podcasts and Videocasts, What is Critical Realism?
The message below is from our colleagues at the CR Network – Asia Pacific. We can thoroughly recommend Johnny Go’s excellent videos which combine remarkably clear explanations of key concepts in critical realism with impressively high production values....
by Dave Elder-Vass | Jun 27, 2020 | CR Matters Webinars, News & Events, Theoretical Reflections
Critical Realism Matters is a series of webinar events held to showcase and celebrate the enormous potential of critical realism. The latest webinar, on Wednesday 24 June 2020, celebrated the launch of the new edited book Critical Realism, Feminism and Gender: A...
