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• What Kind of Realist?

  

  I've always felt that scientific realism is almost self-evidently true. Scientific theories and hypotheses put forward ideas that go beyond the evidence of... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Response by Mervyn Hartwig to Little on Critical Realism

  Mervyn Hartwig is an important exponent of the classic version of Roy Bhaskar's theory of critical realism. He has contributed a great deal to the interpretatio... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Invited Response by Tuukka Kaidesoja on Naturalized Critical Realism

  [Tuukka Kaidesoja accepted my invitation to write a response to my discussion (link) of his book, Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology. Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Discussion with Mervyn Hartwig and Dan Little on Historical Ontology

  

  Mervyn Hartwig is an important exponent of the classic version of Roy Bhaskar's theory of critical realism. He has contributed a great deal to the interpretatio... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Kaidesoja's Naturalistic Social Ontology

  

  Tuukka Kaidesoja provides an important analysis and critique of Roy Bhaskar's philosophical method in his theory of critical realism in Naturalizing Critical... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Reply to Elder-Vass, Hartwig, and Groff on Critical Realism

  

  Critical realism is a hot topic now in sociological theory and philosophy of social science. It turns out that there are some pretty strong disagreements about... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Replies by Elder-Vass and Hartwig to Cruickshank/Little

  Two leading exponents of critical realism, Dave Elder-Vass (The Causal Power of Social Structures: Emergence, Structure and Agency) and Mervyn Hartwig... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Guest Post by Ruth Groff on the Ontology of Critical Realism

  Ruth Groff is Assistant Professor of Political Science at St. Louis University. She specializes in the philosophical underpinnings of Western social and... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Is Ontology an Apriori Field of Knowledge?

  The critical realists -- Roy Bhaskar in particular -- attach a great deal of importance to the question of ontology. A theory of ontology should describe the... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Cruickshank's Central Critique

  

  Justin Cruickshank is a friendly critic to critical realism, not a hostile one. He criticizes the philosophical method but supports many of the substantive... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Bhaskar's Core Ideas

  

  Critical realism has become an important topic within sociological theory, and several prior (and upcoming) posts have addressed the theory. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Making Institutions

  

  The new institutionalists have largely focused on the maintenance and evolution of major social and political institutions. So Kathleen Thelen's excellent... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Relevant to What?

  

  source: Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature (cover) source: Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature, p. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Who Made Economics?

  

  The discipline of economics has a high level of intellectual status, even hegemony, in today’s social sciences — especially in universities in the United States. Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2013 SOCIETY

• The West and the East

  

  Ian Morris has written a pair of books that are intended to contribute to a particularly important set of disagreements in comparative economic history: what... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Guest Post by Elizabeth Anderson on Race in American Politics

  

  Elizabeth Anderson is John Dewey Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author most recently of... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Cruickshank on Philosophical Issues with Critical Realism

  Justin Cruickshank is an interesting commentator on the philosophical underpinnings of critical realism. Critical realism was developed initially by Roy... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2013 SOCIETY

• European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Call for Papers

  

  THE THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (ENPOSS) UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA UNED MADRID,... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Structural Realism and Social Realities?

  

  The topic of realism has come up frequently here -- causal realism, critical realism, scientific realism. Each of these realisms comes out of somewhat... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Guest Post by Jeroen Van Bouwel: On Microfoundations and Macrofoundations

  

  [Jeroen Van Bouwel accepted my invitation to offer his thoughts about several recent posts here on the topic of microfoundations. Jeroen is co-author (with... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2013 SOCIETY