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
One big problem with metaphors is that a certain type of reader – of which there seems to be no shortage – is tempted to reify them. Tom and Cristián object to Roy’s metaphor partly on the grounds that it’s redundant. I… Read More »There Aren’t Really Three Domains: or, Metaphor Is Great, Except When It’s Not
About the Prize: The Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize is awarded annually for a book that constitutes, motivates or exemplifies the best and/or most innovative writing in or about the tradition of critical realism, published in the previous year (2021). The… Read More »Winner of The Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize 2022 announced
In a recent post, Tom Fryer and Cristián Navarrete (2022) argued that “domains” talk is confusing and redundant. In response, Dave Elder-Vass contends that we should absorb the domain of the empirical into the domain of the actual, but keep… Read More »There are three domains—just not exactly Bhaskar’s