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 | 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 | 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...
by Dave Elder-Vass | Jun 4, 2020 | Critical Realist Theory of Social Science, Culture, and Agency Debate, Theoretical Reflections
Review of Lawson, T. (2019). The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology. London and New York: Routledge. This review by Yannick Slade-Caffarel was originally published on the Developing Economics blog on June 2, 2020. Ontology is the study of being....
by Dave Elder-Vass | Oct 27, 2019 | CR Matters Webinars, News & Events, Podcasts and Videocasts, Theoretical Reflections, What is Critical Realism?
Critical Realism Matters is a new series of webinar events held to showcase and celebrate the enormous potential of critical realism. The first pair of webinars, taking place on Saturday 16 November, 2019, have been planned to commemorate the 5th anniversary of...
by Sam Stabler | Apr 14, 2018 | Theoretical Reflections
One does not associate the term “realism” with CW Mills. Conventionally, pragmatism is his home. But, that’s mostly because no one (but the kids) took a peace-oriented realist seriously. But after reading The Causes of World War III there can be little doubt that...
