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  • An interview with the Studies in Critical Realism podcast

  • The late 2020s as the final act of modernity

  • šŸ“£ Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are now available

  • šŸ“˜ Have you written a PhD using critical realism?

  • After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

  • New opportunity for independent critical realist researchers

  • Online Critical Realism Discussion Group

  • šŸ“Call for blog posts: the Intellectual Legacy of Margaret Archer

  • Join us on August 3rd to celebrate the intellectual legacy of Margaret Archer

  • Am I a voluntarist about technology?

  • How Roy Bhaskar talked about the spiritual turn before it was released

  • Out Now: Margaret Archer’s Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

  • International Association of Critical Realism 2024: Looking Back to Look Forward

  • Webinar: A dialogue between Critical Realism and Postdigital Research

  • Call for Papers: One-Day Symposium on the Legacy of Margaret Archer – August 3rd, University of Warwick

  • Epistemic relativism and the escape from the real

  • To what extent was Roy Bhaskar’s later philosophy shaped by Theosophism?

  • Towards a dialogue between CR and Postdigital Research

  • David Hume on escaping an overheated brain

  • Georg Simmel and Critical Realism

  • Clive Lawson’s Technology & Isolation (ch 1-3)

  • Why is learning theory important?

  • Critical realism needs to be a living tradition

  • An interview with Margaret Archer about her life and work

  • Do you use Margaret Archer’s approach to reflexivity in your work?

  • What critical realism can learn from ANT and speculative realism

  • Call for papers: Special issue of Journal of Critical Realism on Critical Realism and Pragmatism

  • Critical realism and digital social science

  • Upcoming Critical Realism webinars

  • The political significance of realism

  • A conversation between empirical and theoretical ontology

  • Social theory as sociology’s meta-conversation

  • The Cambridge approach to social ontology

  • Big data, human agency, critical realism and the future of the social sciences

  • What the lost tradition of classical British social theory can teach us about the dangers of charismatic leadership

  • Critical Realism and Object-Orientated Philosophy on the Status of Objects

  • Archer and Harman on modes of reduction

  • The Impact of Social Theory

  • A couple of places left for the Morphogenetic Approach workshop on Tuesday @SocioWarwick

  • an interview with Christian Smith about the need for sociology to do ontology

  • critical realism as the natural ontological attitude of physicians?

  • cfp: the dehumanisation of contemporary societies

  • the 2016 international association of critical realism conferenceĀ 

  • critical realism book launch, 8th decemberĀ 

  • structure, culture and agency: selected papers of margaret archer

  • CfP: Critical Realism, Gender and Feminism

  • The Social Life of Methods

  • Roy Bhaskar explains critical realism, dialectical critical realism, and metareality in less than 6 minutes

  • Call for papers: Critical Realism, Gender and Feminism

  • Guest talk by Margaret Archer at Cardiff University – 2nd Dec. 2014

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