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Précis of Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2015
This paper introduces and contextualizes my book Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology (London: Routledge, 2013).
Kaidesoja Tuukka
doaj   +2 more sources

O sistema posição-prática como categoria epistemológica: contribuições para análise de discurso crítica

open access: yesAlfa: Revista de Lingüística, 2015
Estudos críticos do discurso têm se consolidado como instrumento importante no campo da crítica explanatória de práticas sociais. Este artigo propõe uma reflexão epistemológica em torno do diálogo transdisciplinar entre o Realismo Crítico – abordagem ...
Elaine MATEUS, Viviane de Melo RESENDE
doaj   +1 more source

How Best to Make Sense of Science? [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2008
The issue of developing a rational framework for not only assessing scientific theories but also providing effective guidelines for satisfactory progress of science lies at the heart of modern methodological debates in the field of philosophy of science.
ali paya
doaj   +1 more source

Deconstructing Theory, Engaging Practice

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article revisits longstanding differences between modern and postmodern theory within systemic and family therapy and discusses its implications for practice. Drawing on Derrida's understanding of deconstruction as an ethical relation, it proposes a hospitable stance that holds theory lightly and irreverently, opening practice to multiple
Glenn Larner
wiley   +1 more source

Realismo crítico e economia: pós-keynesianismo e a ontologia no método de Kregel

open access: yesEstudos Econômicos
Partindo de uma perspectiva realista da dinâmica econômica da sociedade capitalista, apresenta-se, após uma análise das teses do realismo crítico na ciência, especialmente nos trabalhos de Roy Bhaskar e Tony Lawson, o argumento de que dentro do ...
Vinícius Vieira Pereira
doaj   +1 more source

Ultimate capacity of a linear time-invariant bosonic channel [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We determine the ultimate classical information capacity of a linear time-invariant bosonic channel with additive phase-insensitive Gaussian noise. This channel can model fiber-optic communication at power levels below the threshold for significant ...
Roy Bardhan, Bhaskar   +1 more
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Detecting God in practices: Theology in an empirical–theological research project

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010
What is the nature of reality in theological research and how can this ‘theological’ reality be known? Can we empirically research God’s performance in reality?
Rein Brouwer
doaj   +1 more source

Corticosterone-mediated regulation and functions of miR-218-5p in rat brain

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Chronic stress is one of the key precipitating factors in major depressive disorder (MDD). Stress associated studies have underscored the mechanistic role of epigenetic master players like microRNAs (miRNAs) in depression pathophysiology at both ...
Yuta Yoshino   +2 more
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
wiley   +1 more source

New horizons for critical-emancipatory education research: the contributions of Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism

open access: yesÁNFORA, 2023
Objective: The following text shows the potential contributions offered by critical realism when it comes to generating an educational research structure that allows bringing to light knowledge that traditional educational research fails to show. Methodology: To do this, the following text reflects theoretically on how the study and analysis of social ...
openaire   +1 more source

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