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Understanding Causation in Healthcare: An Introduction to Critical Realism. [PDF]
Both healthcare providers and researchers in the health sciences are well rehearsed in asking the question ‘What could be causing this’? and examining beyond the surface of observable symptoms or obvious factors to understand what is really occurring ...
Koopmans E, Schiller DC.
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Why Critical Realism Fails to Justify Critical Social Research [PDF]
Many social scientists have argued that research should be designed to perform a ‘critical’ function, in the sense of challenging the socio-political status quo.
Martyn Hammersley
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Giorgos Tsiolis, Michalis Christodoulou
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Political realism as ideology critique [PDF]
This paper outlines an account of political realism as a form of ideology critique. We defend the normative edge of this critical-theoretic project against the common charge that there is a problematic trade-off between a theory’s groundedness in facts ...
Alexander M. +24 more
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Critical Realism sebagai Alternatif Landasan Filosofis di Penelitian Sistem Informasi
Tulisan ini dibuat untuk memperkenalkan landasan filosofis critical realism atau yang pada sebuah artikel di Indonesia disebut sebagai realisme kritis di akademisi dan praktisi sistem informasi Indonesia.
Diah Priharsari
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The contributions of scientific realism and critical realism to realist evaluation
Realist evaluation has gained prominence in the field of evaluation in recent years. Its theory-driven approach to explaining how and why programmes work or not makes it attractive to many novices, early career researchers, and organizations implementing
Ferdinand C. Mukumbang +2 more
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Critical Naturalism: The Manifesto and Critical Realism
The prior issue of Krisis (42:1) published Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, with the aim to instigate a debate of the issues raised in this manifesto – the necessary re-thinking of the role (and the concept) of nature in critical theory in relation to ...
Urs Lindner
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Critical realism in political ecology: An argument against flat ontology
This theoretical article takes issue with how 'new materialisms' have been employed in political ecology, and it explores the 'depth ontology' of critical realism developed by Roy Bhaskar as an alternative to the 'flat ontologies' of new materialism ...
Ståle Knudsen
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Constructive-critical realism as a philosophy of science and religion
Although highly disputed, critical realism (in Ian G. Barbour’s style) is widely known as a tool to relate science and religion. Sympathising with an even more stringent hermeneutical approach, Andreas Losch had argued for a modification of critical ...
Andreas Losch
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Critical Realism: A Critical Evaluation
Critical realism, championed by its proponents as the most promising post-positivist social science paradigm, has gained significant influence in the last few decades. This paper provides a critical evaluation of the critical realism movement in the hope
Tong Zhang
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