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How should we conduct ourselves? Critical realism and Aristotelian teleology : a framework for the development of virtues in pedagogy and curriculum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Critical Realism on 19 June 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2018.1484653.
Sharar, Bushra
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The philosophy of critical realism and childhood studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Critical realism is a philosophy of social science that analyses and aims to remedy current problems and gaps. Basic tenets of positivist and quantitative research tend to contradict those of qualitative and interpretive research, and critical realism ...
Alderson P   +18 more
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Evaluation of the Argument of "Unconceived Alternatives" from the Perspective of Bhaskar's Critical Realism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023
Scientific realism has always faced continuous criticisms from scientific anti-realists. Kyle Stanford's "unconceived alternatives" argument can be seen as a late and troublesome version of these challenges.
Amir Sharifipour   +2 more
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М. Gorky as a Theoretician of Literature [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2018
The essay focuses on the theoretical problem of M. Gorky’s artistic method claiming that Gorky’s work combines elements of realism, Romanticism, and modernism. Already at the beginning of his career, he realized that critical realism was in crisis as his
Olga A. Ovcharenko
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Critical Realism and Statistical Methods: A Response to Nash [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article offers a defence of critical realism in the face of objections Nash (2005) makes to it in a recent edition of this journal. It is argued that critical and scientific realisms are closely related and that both are opposed to statistical ...
Bhaskar R.   +13 more
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CRITICAL REALISM REDUX: A RESPONSE TO JOSH REEVES

open access: yesZygon, 2020
This article combines an appreciation of several themes in Josh Reeves's Against Methodology in Science and Religion: Recent Debates on Rationality and Theology while arguing in favor of critical realism.
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A Congregational Study on Mission Readiness: Toward a practical ecclesiology of practical action

open access: yesEcclesial Futures, 2023
The case study investigates mission readiness as a form of church mobilization involving participants and the investigator constructing a framework of ministry practices for analysis.
Mark Harden
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A Critical Realist Approach on Autism: Ontological and Epistemological Implications for Knowledge Production in Autism Research

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
The ontological status of autism has been a subject of considerable debate and philosophical approaches of it have been recent and sparse. On the one hand, from its conception, autism has been historically heavily located in the fields of psychiatry ...
Marianthi Kourti
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Management Knowledge and Knowledge Management: Realism and Forms of Truth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper addresses the issue of truth and knowledge in management generally and knowledge management in particular. Based on ideas from critical realism and critical theory, it argues against the monovalent conceptualization of knowledge implicitly or ...
Mingers, John
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The Realist Challenge to Conceptual Pragmatism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Although commonly cited as one of the philosophers responsible for the resurgence of interest in pragmatism, Wilfrid Sellars was also the son of Roy Wood Sellars, one of the most dedicated critical realists of the early 20th century.
Olen, Peter
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