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Retroductive Theorizing: A Contribution of Critical Realism to Mixed Methods Research

Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2021
Mixed methods studies in social sciences are predominantly employed to explore broad, complex, and multifaceted issues and to evaluate policies and interventions.
Ferdinand C. Mukumbang
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Racial Realism

The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism, 2019
Realism as it has been articulated by white, middle-class literary gatekeepers since its heyday in the early twentieth century (and frequently into the present) has failed to address racism and imperialism of the era. Gene Jarrett describes black authors
J. Sheffer
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The Many Faces of Realism

Pragmatism, 2020
"The first two lectures place the alternative I defend -- a kind of pragmatic realism -- in a historical and metaphysical context. Part of that context is provided by Husserl's remark that the history of modern philosophy begins with Galileo -- that is ...
H. Putnam
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REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM

2007
Questions about the plausibility and character of realism and its alternatives are at the heart of all metaphysical disputes today. However it is not a straightforward matter to know when some contentious realm of entities is real, or to understand and appreciate what is at issue between those on either side of the dispute. This book aims to make clear
Stuart Brock, Edwin Mares
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Critical realism

2023
This comprehensive Dictionary brings together an extensive range of definitive terms in ecological economics. Assembling contributions from distinguished scholars, it provides an intellectual map to this evolving subject ranging from the practical to the philosophical.
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Scientific Realism


The scientific realism debate directly addresses the relation between human thought and the reality in which it finds itself. A core question: can we justifiably believe that science accurately describes the reality that lies beneath the limits of human ...
T. Lyons
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Interpretative realism and prescriptive realism

Journal of Political Ideologies, 2012
In recent years some political theorists have been promoting ‘political realism’ as an alternative to the mainstream perspectives fostered by what is perceived as the ideal theory tendency embedded...
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Scientific Realism

2021
This chapter addresses scientific realism. After the heyday of empiricism in the interwar period and its immediate aftermath, many critical reactions to empiricism seemed to suggest scientific realism. It was widely agreed that scientific theories make references to things that cannot be directly observed (or at least seen), and thus emerged the issue ...
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PRESCRIPTIVE REALISM

Philosophia Reformata, 2006
In my book God’s Call1 I gave an historical account of the debate within twentieth century analytic philosophy between moral realism and expressivism. Moral realism is the view that moral properties like goodness or cruelty exist independently of our making judgements that things have such properties.
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