The 2023 annual conference of the International Association for Critical Realism will be held in Manila, from 9-11 August, with a pre-conference PhD workshop on 7-8 August. The conference ill be hosted by the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.… Read More »Call for papers for IACR 2023 conference
Please join The Philosophy of MetaReality: Creativity, Love and Freedom Reading Group and Teach out (online) First Meeting 0900-1100 GMT on 21st Feb and every two weeks after. PLEASE READ MANIFESTO AND INTRODUCTION (pages vii-xxiii) BEFORE FIRST MEETING All are… Read More »Reading group on Roy Bhaskar’s Philosophy of Metareality
Zoom format – March 25 & 26 , 2023 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,… Read More »Annual Critical Social Ontology Workshop – Call for Papers
Jin Xue, professor in urban and regional planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, is organizing a one-week PhD course on ‘Critical realism in environment, development and planning studies’ on June 5 – 9, 2023 in the Oslo region… Read More »One week course on critical realism in environment, development and planning studies
The first issue of the Polish Journal of Critical Realism will probably come out at the end of March or the beginning of April. Texts have already been received for the first issue. Funding has been secured for the Journal… Read More »Update on Critical Realism in Poland
The next IACR conference (including pre-conference) will be held 7th – 11th August 2023 in Manila, The Philippines, with options for remote online participation. To receive further announcements you can sign up at the IACR conference page.
A guest post by Robert Isaksen. The full call, including references, is available here on the website of the Journal for Critical Realism. I shall argue that although ontology is important, we also have to pay attention to other features… Read More »Call for Papers, Special Issue: Judgemental Rationality
Invitation for Expressions of Interest Journal of Critical Realism (JCR) is the Journal of the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR), established in 1997 to foster the discussion, propagation and development of critical realist approaches to understanding and changing the… Read More »Volunteer editorial positions with the Journal of Critical Realism
Several critical realists working in applied linguistics recently took part in a webinar organised by the Kyoto chapter of the Japanese Association for Language Teaching (JALT). In this panel Jérémie Bouchard (Hokkai Gakuen University, Sapporo), Dominic Edsall (University College London,… Read More »Critical Realism in Applied Linguistics
How do critical realists make sense of technology? What are the major themes, challenges and debates concerning technology within critical realist social theory? The purpose of this reading group is to explore these questions through monthly meetings to discuss relevant… Read More »Manchester Critical Realism & Technology Reading Group