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Two new bite-size videos on ontological emergence

6th August 2020

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

IACR 2020 Online Conference Announcement

11th July 2020

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

Critical Realism Network – Asia Pacific launches new bite-size video

1st July 2020

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 and gender video available on YouTube

27th June 2020

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

Critical Realism Matters Webinar Series: Critical Realism, Feminism and Gender

8th June 2020

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 04:00-5.30 pm London time (click here for your local time) Panellists: Leigh Price Radha d’Souza Tony Lawson Lena Gunnarsson Steph Grohmann Michiel Van Ingen This webinar aims to showcase the contributions and potential of critical realist… Read More »Critical Realism Matters Webinar Series: Critical Realism, Feminism and Gender

Refreshing the critical realism network website

8th June 202017th March 2022

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 Foundation. The project developed a strong network of… Read More »Refreshing the critical realism network website

The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology (Review)

4th June 2020

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… Read More »The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology (Review)

Critical Realism Video Introductions Launched

29th May 2020

One of the most exciting outputs from the Critical Realism Network project at Yale was a series of five short videos introducing critical realism, hosted by Katelin Albert. It has taken a while, but we have now been able to… Read More »Critical Realism Video Introductions Launched

Applications invited to the Bhaskar Memorial Fund

13th May 2020

The Bhaskar Memorial Fund A sustainable, diversified global society in which the free flourishing of each is a condition of the free flourishing of all. This, for Roy Bhaskar (1944-2014), is the core objective (moral alethia) of the human species.… Read More »Applications invited to the Bhaskar Memorial Fund

Roy Bhaskar explains critical realism, dialectical critical realism, and metareality in less than 6 minutes

31st March 202017th March 2022