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Why Critical Realism Fails to Justify Critical Social Research
Methodological 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
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М. Gorky as a Theoretician of Literature [PDF]
Studia 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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Evaluation of the Argument of "Unconceived Alternatives" from the Perspective of Bhaskar's Critical Realism [PDF]
Journal 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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Empirical realism and the legitimacy of ontology: A dialogue [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of this dialogue between an ‘empirical realist’ and a ‘traditional ontologist’ is to clarify and evaluate the presuppositions of the kind of antiontological position exemplified by empirical realism.
McWherter, Dustin
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, 2022 In keeping with the 2021 IACR Conference theme (Re) Envisaging Emancipatory Research, Science and Practice, this paper reviews over fifty instances of critical realist research in Africa which have sought to establish emancipatory research praxis by ...
Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
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CRITICAL REALISM REDUX: A RESPONSE TO JOSH REEVES
Zygon, 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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Critical realism as a fractal philosophy [PDF]
There are two overarching questions that guide this paper: What are some potential issues with the criterion for judgemental rationality as developed by Bhaskar?
Isaksen, Karl Robert
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On the Relationship of Ian Barbour's and Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism [PDF]
, 2016 ‘Critical realism’ is to some extent an equivocal term, although its ambiguity has rarely been noticed. The reason for this ambiguity is that the term has constantly been reinvented.
Losch, Andreas
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A critical realist methodology in empirical research: foundations, process, and payoffs
, 2022 This article describes and evaluates the application of an explicitly critical realist methodology to a quantitative doctoral research project on the causes of family homelessness in Australia.
Hastings, C
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Critical Realism, Gender and Feminism : Exchanges, Challenges, Synergies
, 2016 Editorial to the special issue of JCR on Critical Realism, Gender and ...
Gunnarsson, Lena, +2 more
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