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A Study of the Possibility of a Science Associated with a Specific Worldview [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2019
There are two main sections in this paper. First, we will show that some of the chief 20th-century theories of science either have failed to demonstrate that value judgments do not influence the context of consolidation and determination of science or ...
Mostafa Taqavi
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Actors and networks or agents and structures: towards a realist view of information systems [PDF]

, 2007
Actor-network theory (ANT) has achieved a measure of popularity in the analysis of information systems. This paper looks at ANT from the perspective of the social realism of Margaret Archer.
Alistair Mutch, Amsterdamska, O., Baumard, P., Bourdieu, P., Calhoun, C., Callinicos, A., Callinicos, A., Callinicos, A., Checkland, P., Ciborra, C., Collier, A., Collins, H.M., Currie, W., Dahlbom, B., Dennett, D.C., Edelman, G.M., Fowler, B., Fuller, S., Grint, K., Jones, M., Lakoff, G., Latour, B., Latour, B., Latour, B., Latour, B., Law, J., Law, J., Mutch, A., Norris, C., O'Brien, F., Roberts, R.H., Rose, H., Rose, H., Rose, S., Sayer, A., Searle, J.R., Singer, P., Sokal, A., Sokal, A.D., Walsham, G., Watson, T., Whitelegg, J., Whitley, R., Wilde, O.   +43 more
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REALISMO CRÍTICO E MARXISMO: CONTRIBUIÇÕES À FILOSOFIA DA EDUCAÇÃO MATEMÁTICA

Contexto & Educação, 2019
O presente artigo procura elucidar pontos nodais do Realismo Crítico com relação as compreensões de verdade científica e progresso da ciência, explicando conceitos chaves como estratificação e emergência da realidade, relativismo epistemológico ...
Guilherme Wagner, Everaldo Silveira
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Of Babies and Bathwater. A Review of Tuukka Kaidesoja Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology

Journal of Social Ontology, 2015
Tuukka Kaidesoja’s new book is a welcome addition to the literature on critical realism. He shows good judgement in defending Roy Bhaskar’s argument for causal powers while criticising its framing as a transcendental argument.
Elder-Vass Dave
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What is Technology: A Reflection Based on Bhaskar's Ontology [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
The article demonstrates that technology is a product of the complex interaction between humans and natural, artificial, and social structures, which enables the creation of various forms of technology.
Mostafa Taqavi, Maryam Poostforush
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Political ecology and ontology: Is literal critical realism the answer? A response to Knudsen

Journal of Political Ecology, 2023
In a recent article in this journal, Ståle Knudsen argues that the recent trend to flat ontology in political ecology is mistaken, and urges more engagement with critical realism as introduced by Roy Bhaskar.
Tim Forsyth
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Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality”: a reply to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro [PDF]

, 2015
As a response to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s critique of my essay “Fetishes are gods in the process of construction,” this paper enters into critical engagement with anthropological proponents of what has been called the “ontological turn.” Among other ...
Graeber, David
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Why critical realism fails to justify critical social research [PDF]

, 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.
Hammersley, Martyn
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Neuronal ABCA7 deficiency aggravates mitochondrial dysfunction and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease. [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Abstract INTRODUCTION Loss‐of‐function variants of the ABCA7 gene are associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). How neuronal ABCA7 contributes to AD pathogenesis is unknown. METHODS Using neuron‐specific Abca7 KO mice (nAbca7−/−) with or without 5×FAD amyloid model background and post mortem AD brains, we investigated AD‐related ...
Wang N, Pan Y, Starling SC, Haskell DH, Quintero AC, Kawatani K, Inoue Y, Shue F, Ma X, Aikawa T, Martens YA, Kurti A, Parsons TM, Perkerson RB, Roy B, Raulin AC, Ren Y, DeTure M, Dickson DW, Bao H, Han X, Bu G, Kanekiyo T.   +22 more
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Epistemological and ontological indeterminism: Hayek and Schumpeter [PDF]

Panoeconomicus
The aim of this article is to compare and contrast the ideas of Friedrich von Hayek and Joseph Alois Schumpeter, who both adopted an indeterminist approach in their economic analyses, through a discussion of their relative strengths and weaknesses.
Soylu Fatma Esra
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