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Understanding Causation in Healthcare: An Introduction to Critical Realism. [PDF]

open access: yesQual Health Res, 2022
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.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Why Critical Realism Fails to Justify Critical Social Research [PDF]

open access: yesMethodological Innovations, 2009
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
doaj   +2 more sources

Political realism as ideology critique [PDF]

open access: yesCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2017
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

open access: yesJurnal Teknologi Informasi dan Ilmu Komputer, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

The contributions of scientific realism and critical realism to realist evaluation

open access: yesJournal of Critical Realism, 2023
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Critical Naturalism: The Manifesto and Critical Realism

open access: yesKrisis, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Critical realism in political ecology: An argument against flat ontology

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2023
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Constructive-critical realism as a philosophy of science and religion

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
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

open access: yesSocial Epistemology, 2022
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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