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… Read More »A beginner’s guide to critical realism
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… Read More »The Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize 2020 winner
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… Read More »Critical realism in times of crisis
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 fee (full paying/non-members): EUR 50Conference fee… Read More »Registration open for IACR 2020 online conference
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 growing recognition of… Read More »How do we ensure that our online events feel like events?
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… Read More »Suffering Selves as Broken Mechanisms
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 EMERGENCEhttps://critrealap.net/bite-size-lecture-05-the-critical-realist-theory-of-ontological-emergence/ 2. BITE-SIZE LECTURE 06: THE CRITICAL REALIST THEORY OF ONTOLOGICAL EMERGENCE IIhttps://critrealap.net/bite-size-lecture-056-the-critical-realist-theory-of-ontological-emergence-ii/… Read More »Two new bite-size videos on ontological emergence
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 University, Warsaw, Poland.… Read More »IACR 2020 Online Conference Announcement
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. Hello and… Read More »Critical Realism Network – Asia Pacific launches new bite-size video
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… Read More »Critical realism and gender video available on YouTube