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)
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
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
A series of podcasts recorded by the British Sociological Association’s Realism Study Group and the Centre for Social Ontology between 2010 and 2015:
The International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) invites nominations for the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize. The prize is awarded annually for a book or article that constitutes, motivates or exemplifies the best and/or most innovative new writing in or about the… Read More »Call for nominations: Cheryl Frank book prize (Note short deadline)
The University of Saskatchewan is pleased to announce that it will offer an upper graduate-level course, “Introduction to Realism: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice,” this spring in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. This course will be held May 06 – June 23, 2020… Read More »Graduate Course in Realist Research Methodology at University of Saskatchewan (May 06 – June 23, 2020)
The Cambridge Realist Workshop is a regular seminar series which takes place in the autumn and early spring each year at Newnham College, Cambridge in the UK. The schedule is here. Next up is Jana Bacevic, who will be presenting… Read More »Cambridge Realist Workshop schedule
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, which took place on Saturday 16 November 2019, were planned to commemorate the 5th… Read More »Critical Realism Matters: An Introductory Webinar
In the first of our recent #CRMatters webinars, Wendy Olsen introduced the concept of epistemic relativism. These slides offer a taster of the talk and we’ll be publishing the video itself in the near future: