Congratulations to Sadiya Akram, who has been awarded the Cheryl Frank prize for the best book on or using critical realism published in 2023. The Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize is awarded annually for a book that constitutes, motivates or exemplifies… Read More »Winner announced: Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize 2024
A guest post by Jack Newman. Now entering its fourth year, the Critical Realism Discussion Group provides an online forum for presenting and discussing critical realist research. We consider the application of critical realism as well as theoretical questions that… Read More »Online Critical Realism Discussion Group
Guest post by Rob Faure Walker In Love and the Market: How to Recover from the Enlightenment and Survive the Current Crisis, I have tried to demystify Roy Bhaskar’s MetaReality (2012). As with much of Bhaskar’s writing, the content of… Read More »Can a Critical Realist Conception of Love Help us to Flourish through the Crises of Modernity?
William Outhwaite, Newcastle University, UKAn edited version of his presentation at the One-Day Symposium on the Legacy of Margaret Archer. August 3rd 2024, University of Warwick, England, UK This is the second time I find myself celebrating Maggie’s life; the first… Read More »Margaret Archer’s achievement will continue to inspire future generations
Catherine Hastings, Macquarie University, AustraliaAn edited version of her presentation at the One-Day Symposium on the Legacy of Margaret Archer. August 3rd 2024, University of Warwick, England, UK I am reflecting on Margaret Archer as a relative newcomer to her… Read More »Margaret Archer’s contribution to critical realist emancipatory and explanatory social science
Following our recent symposium we are inviting short blog posts (750-1500 words) reflecting on the intellectual legacy of Margaret Archer. These will be published on the Critical Realism Network blog. Here are some examples of themes these posts could address:… Read More »Call for blog posts: the Intellectual Legacy of Margaret Archer
August 3rd, 10am-5pm at the University of Warwick Margaret Archer’s work has had a profound impact on social theory, challenging and reshaping our understanding of agency, structure, culture and their interplay in producing social change. Her contributions to the discipline have… Read More »Join us on August 3rd to celebrate the intellectual legacy of Margaret Archer
In this guest post, Graham Scambler talks about his recent book on the causal forces at work in elite sport – and the severe consequences they can have for the athletes involved. Two major themes have informed my applications of… Read More »Critical Realism and Sport
A guest post by Ruth Groff. The Critical Social Ontology Workshop is an interdisciplinary venue for radical thinking about the metaphysics of irreducibly social phenomena. Core members of CSOW are Ruth Groff (Coordinator), Sally Haslanger, Tony Lawson, Doug Porpora, Vanessa… Read More »Annual Critical Social Ontology Workshop – online, April 6th & 7th, 2024 – Call for papers
In this final book by renowned sociologist Margaret S. Archer, her groundbreaking morphogenetic approach is defended, refined and extended through a series of provocative engagements with her critics. Archer, a pioneer of critical realism, addresses key debates surrounding her work… Read More »Margaret Archer’s Final Book: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics. Launch event on March 28th, 3pm GMT