This is a guest blog post by Professor Frederic Vandenberghe of Sociology in the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Frederic is a leading expert in the field of Critical… Read More »Reconstructive Social Theory: Metatheoretical Reconstruction
This is a guest blog post by Professor Frederic Vandenberghe of Sociology in the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Frederic is a leading expert in the field of Critical… Read More »Reconstructive Social Theory: Habermas, Bhaskar, and Caillé
This is a guest blog post by Alvin Camba (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the John Hopkins University) reflecting upon his recent experience participating in the Philosophy of Social Sciences Graduate Student Summer Seminar 2016 in Tacoma, WA. Environmental History,… Read More »Environmental History, World-Ecology, and Critical Realism
This is a guest blog post by Jonah Stuart Brundage (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley) reflecting upon his recent presentation on the relationship between critical realism and the field of historical sociology at this year’s International… Read More »Critical Realism, Historical Sociology, and Causation
This is a guest blog post by Sam Stabler (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Yale University) reflecting upon his presentation “Sociological Critique, Pragmatism, and Moral Practice” at the International Association for Critical Realism 2016 Annual conference. Breakdown: Dehumanization Revisited Presenting… Read More »Sociological Critique, Pragmatism, and Moral Practice
Towards a Process-Oriented Ontology by Timothy Rutzou In the final presentation of the panel “Causal Powers in the Social Sciences” from IACR 2016, Timothy Rutzou discusses the problem of temporality, process, and change when it comes to our understanding of… Read More »Causal Powers in the Social Sciences panel at International Association of Critical Realism 2016 – Presentation by Timothy Rutzou
During the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) Annual Conference held in Cardiff, UK from July 19-23rd, 2016, Dave Elder-Vass, Philip Gorski and Timothy Rutzou participated in a panel “Causal Powers in the Social Sciences”. This panel stemmed from the… Read More »Causal Powers in the Social Sciences panel at International Association of Critical Realism 2016 – Presentation by Philip Gorski
During the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) Annual Conference held in Cardiff, UK from July 19-23rd, 2016, Dave Elder-Vass, Philip Gorski and Timothy Rutzou participated in a panel “Causal Powers in the Social Sciences”. This panel stemmed from the… Read More »Causal Powers in the Social Sciences panel at International Association of Critical Realism 2016 – Presentation by Dave Elder-Vass
The problem Judgmental rationality, or the ability to evaluate different positions as being better or worse, is a very easy ideal to call for, but is often undeveloped and under-theorized. ‘Critical realism’ begins with the critique of simplistic accounts of realism… Read More »What are the Criteria of Judgmental Rationality?
Dr. Timothy Rutzou interviews Professor Margaret Archer (Centre for Social Ontology) her recent book with Pierpaolo Donati, The Relational Subject (Cambridge University Press), which was awarded the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize 2015. In their recent work, The Relational Subject, Archer… Read More »Interview with Professor Margaret Archer on ‘The Relational Subject’