Introduction to the special issue : applied critical realism in the social sciences [PDF]
The aim of our initial call for papers was to encourage the submission of exemplars of applied work, reflections on the use of critical realism, and metatheoretical developments.
Price, Leigh +3 more
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Tuukka Kaidesoja on Critical Realist Transcendental Realism
I argue that critical realists think pretty much what Tukka Kaidesoja says that he himself thinks, but also that Kaidesoja’s objections to the views that he attributes to critical realists are not persuasive.
Ruth Groff
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Religious Non-Realism as a Border Zone? Reflecting on Feuerbach’s Anthropological Theology
In the present paper I examine the issue of religious non-realism with a special focus on its expression in Feuerbach’s anthropological theology.
Peter Šajda
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The Contribution of Systemic Thought to Critical Realism [PDF]
Critical realism, especially as developed by Roy Bhaskar, embodies at its heart systemic and holistic concepts such as totality, emergence, open systems, stratification, autopoiesis and holistic causality. These concepts have their own long history of
Mingers, John, John Mingers
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The Study of Critical Realism Implications in Evaluation of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Making [PDF]
Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify and extract the implications of critical realism for science, technology and innovation policy-making as one of the later research traditions in social sciences.
Peyman Mohammadi +2 more
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Helping Business Schools Engage with Real Problems: The Contribution of Critical Realism and Systems Thinking [PDF]
The world faces major problems, not least climate change and the financial crisis, and business schools have been criticised for their failure to help address these issues and, in the case of the financial meltdown, for being causally implicated in it ...
Mingers, John
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Critical approaches to literary realism
The inquiries regarding the concept of realism tend to result in an attempt to define the ontological statutes that govern the referential plausibility constituted in literary works.
Gerardo Argüelles Fernández +1 more
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Founding transdisciplinary knowledge production in critical realism: implications and benefits [PDF]
This article explains the implications and benefits of founding transdisciplinary collaborations of knowledge production in critical realism. We call such equal partnerships of researchers and practitioners knowledge alliances. Drawing on the distinction
Stigendal, Mikael, +3 more
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Reclaiming Rational Theory Choice as Central: A Critique of Methodological Applications of Critical Realism [PDF]
My central claim is that texts introducing and explaining critical realism focus on its ontological insights, and even though issues of judgemental rationality and theory choice are central to research these often become peripheral and/or are not stated ...
Isaksen, Robert
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A critical realist (re-)envisaging of emancipatory research, science and practice
In September 2021, Rhodes University’s Environmental Learning Research Centre, together with WITS’s Centre for Researching Education and Labour (REAL), hosted The 24th annual International Association of Critical Realism conference online.
Schudel, Ingrid J
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