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The Journal of #CriticalRealism has published another of Jamie Morgan's brilliant interviews with key realists. This time it's Kate Soper, discussing her work on humanism and alternative hedonism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Realism, humanism and alternative hedonism: an interview with Kate Soper, Part 1
Kate Soper is a prominent environmentalist and peace campaigner, as well as a pioneering philosopher of Marxism and ecology, human needs, consumerism and its alternatives. In the first half of our ...
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August 7, 2026 at 9:44 AM
crnetwork.bsky.social
Eight papers on Margaret Archer from the Journal of #CriticalRealism special issue are now available. Authors include Al-Amoudi, Donati, Maccarini, Morgan, Porpora, and Steyn. www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
Latest articles from Journal of Critical Realism
Browse the latest articles and research from Journal of Critical Realism
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July 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social
Be part of our working Group on #CriticalRealism & #peacestudies and join the keynote speech by Prof Heikki Patomäki

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Critical Realism & Peace Studies - Keynote Prof. Heikki Patomäki (1)
YouTube video by VIPR - Varna Peace Institute
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May 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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Be part of our working Group on #criticalrealism & #peacestudies and join the keynote speech by Prof Heikki Patomäki

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsje0J7sJo
May 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social
Our 1. Meeting! Working Group Critical Realism & Peace Studies!

Here some further informations: josefmuehlbauer.com/critical-rea...

#peacestudies #peace #criticalrealism #conference #discussion #politics

In case u miss it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsj...
Critical Realism & Peace Studies - Keynote Prof. Heikki Patomäki (1)
YouTube video by VIPR - Varna Peace Institute
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May 9, 2026 at 11:45 AM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
Half way through 'view from nowhere' & parallels with Bhaskar's #CriticalRealism are striking. Nagel argues for a possibility of objectivity that assumes subjectivity and for rationality to make a priori sense of contingent empirical data. Are there any published parallels between Nagel & Bhaskar?
April 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
Can anyone point me towards reviews, studies, critiques, etc. on #CriticalRealism & its relevance to the #Philosophy & realism of Thomas Nagel (cf. View from nowhere; what it's like to be a bat, etc.)

Have found some articles in Journal of @crnetwork.bsky.social & @philosophynow.bsky.social

Thanx🙏🏼
April 1, 2026 at 8:13 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
My thoughts on "What Makes Academic Writing Human(e): A Critical Realist Response" in: Bouchard & Zotzmann, eds. #CriticalRealism in #AppliedLinguistics #CambridgeUniversityPress 2026

#AcademicWriting
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#WhatMakesAcademicWritingHumane
#GenAI
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Summary Drawing from critical realism and building on previous academic studies and writing theories and practices, the author advances approaches to academic writing that are both human and humane, by situating academic writing within the broader critical realist project of furthering human flourishing and emancipation; of what it means to be human; and of why things matter to people. Addressing what counts as human(e) in academic writing has become pressing, as concerns about machine-generated texts, such as Large Language Models like ChatGPT challenge understandings of truth, knowledge, and justice. Underlying the argument in this chapter is the assumption that writing in the academy is a social practice (specifically, a method of enquiry) that should be oriented towards epistemic virtues including commitment to truth and socially just standards of excellence. For academic writing to fulfil such commitments, the author argues that it needs to be human(e). For it to be human(e), it requires a writer–agent–knower to rationally judge between educative and harmful academic writing theories and practices, in the interests of human flourishing and emancipation. Keywords academic writing being human dharma emancipation explanatory critique flourishing knowledge truth ubuntu
February 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM
drrobarcher.bsky.social
Sociology + psychoanalysis: Mark Carrigan’s “My Psychoanalytical Turn” shows how Lacan, Margaret Archer, and Winnicott shaped his thinking. A reflective & unusually candid read. Highly recommend!

#ObjectRelations #Lacan #CriticalRealism #Winnicott #Bollas

markcarrigan.net/2026/01/28/m...
My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography
This post was written by Claude (Anthropic’s AI assistant) based on reading approximately 40-50 of my blog posts to trace my intellectual trajectory. I asked Claude to document my “psyc…
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February 1, 2026 at 12:44 PM
alexandergallas.bsky.social
I've written a piece on #ConjuncturalAnalysis, which has been published in the open access journal Coils of the Serpent. Drawing upon #Marxism and #CriticalRealism, I argue that the conjuncture is an ontological layer. 1/3

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Conjunctural Analysis: A Materialist and Critical-Realist Approach – Coils of the Serpent
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January 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
cddmanchester.bsky.social
Pragmatist-Critical Realism as a Research Paradigm

Combining #CriticalRealism and #Pragmatism can produce a more-powerful research paradigm for #DevelopmentStudies

📺 This short video explains how plus a four-step operationalisation methodology:
Pragmatist-Critical Realism as a Development Studies Research Paradigm
Learn how combining critical realism and pragmatism can produce a more-powerful research paradigm in development studies This short video summarises “pragmatist-critical realism” and explains the four-step methodology through which it can be operationalised. It summarises the journal paper, “Pragm
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December 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
AnOther/similar significant reason #AcademicWriting is de-valued by teachers, students, #HigherEducation is that it is not seen as a 'rhetoric of praxis', meaning it has/should have material effects on the world.
#CriticalRealism #AcWri #WhatMakesWritingAcademic
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Critical Realism and Composition Theory | Donald Judd | Taylor & Franc
The field of composition theory has emerged as part of the intellectual turmoil and set of pedagogical debates which have beset higher education for the last
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December 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
rosenik.bsky.social
Just noted that @crnetwork.bsky.social has listed my doctoral thesis (2023) in the library of contributions to #CriticalRealism

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Relational Agency in Competency-Based Vocational Education
Explore the complexities of relational agency in vocational education, addressing challenges in competency-based training and student counselling.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
mikael-9.bsky.social
Excited to share that our study titled "Addressing the Contradictions of #SocialWork: Lessons from #CriticalRealism, the #SocialSolidarityEconomy, & the #HullHouseTradition Social Work" is published in the journal #SocialSciences, @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social Link: www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14...
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
jfsfutures.bsky.social
transformation and embracing a #criticalrealism approach guided by responsible processes, the journey to #empower #youthfutures collectives in becoming good ancestors takes a significant step forward. #Futuresliteracy #futures @itsanisah.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
drrobarcher.bsky.social
Thrilled that my Epistemic Alchemy Podcast interview on Critical Realism & the Replication Crisis in Psychology has hit 200 listens! Thanks to everyone who tuned in and shared it 🙏
Listen here 👉 www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wpmsx-...
#CriticalRealism #ReplicationCrisis #PhilosophyOfScience #Replication
Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism and the crisis of replication in psychology
In this episode, I interview Dr Rob Archer and we talk about Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism and how it deals with the crisis of replication.   *What is critical realism? *What is the role of ontology?...
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October 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
How should epistemic research bridge the 'situated' vs 'objective' knowledge dualism?

This matters because all knowledges are situated but not all advance justice, fairness, truth, emancipation.

As a critical realist, I glimpse a way to bridge this.

But am I wrong?

#CriticalRealism
#MoralRealism
October 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
anthonythorpe.bsky.social
Big in Japan? Bigger than I thought. A neat blog post about critical realism by Hazuki Kajiwara, a researcher at Tokyo's Rikkyo University
#CriticalRealism #JapanHealthcare #JapanesePhilosophy
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
ecojustice.bsky.social
Presented some ideas on how critical realists can advance the ongoing ecocide debate. Thanks for wonderful and cheering feedback! #IACR #CriticalRealism #ecocide
August 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
From January 2026, #CriticalRealism in #AppliedLinguistics will be available from Cambridge University Press edited by Jérémie Bouchard and Karin Zotzmann.

My chapter (ch. 5) argues for a human and humane approach to #AcademicWriting in which truth matters.

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Critical Realism in Applied Linguistics | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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July 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
Listening to 'Racism & prejudice' (cf @hackneyabbott.bsky.social comments).

Citing 'empirical' evidence of what some experience at Time 1n as if it exhausts defs. of racism is unsound. Reality is not exhausted by *some* people's personal experiences👀

#CriticalRealism

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July 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
theoryenthusiast.bsky.social
My reflexivity

#postpositivism #constructivism #interpretism #pragmatism #criticalrealism
July 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
serenissimaj.bsky.social
Winding my way back to the UK by train from Braga (Pt) having made my point: the real politik of #GenAI needs embedding in ALL academic writing pedagogies.

It's not enough to teach what-how. It's imperative to teach why this is happening to develop agentic reflexivity and flourish.
#CriticalRealism
Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course. Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course. Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course.
July 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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#CriticalRealism
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July 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM