• Do large language models have a psychology?

• Human concern as the interface between realist sociology and psychoanalysis

• Why do we want what we want?

• What I mean when I talk about ‘LLMs in the lifeworld’

• Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory in Education, Jan 24th in Bath/online

• Online Critical Realism Discussion Group

• Why I find the Lacanian concept of desire so fascinating

• The unconscious as overflowing with other people’s desires

• The political significance of realism

• Reconciling the psychoanalytical and the reflexive 

• Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

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

• cfp: the dehumanisation of contemporary societies

• the 2016 international association of critical realism conference 

• a working group to create a realist sociology of flourishing

• critical realism book launch, 8th december 

• dear academic hive mind: help me produce a comprehensive list of critiques of margaret archer’s work

• CfP: Critical Realism, Gender and Feminism

• Routines and Reflexivity – March 10th @SocioWarwick

• Prosumption, appropriation and the ontology of economic form – January 27th @SocioWarwick

• The Relational ‘We’ in Personal Morphogenesis – February 3rd @SocioWarwick

• TOMORROW @SocioWarwick: Emma Uprichard on Complex Temporal Ontologies and Method

• What would happen if an evil scientist wiped the memories of everyone within a workplace?

• Margaret Archer interviewed in Times Higher Education

• The Centre for Social Ontology

• A glossary of critical realist terminology

• What is progress in social theory?

• Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive

• Lots of free stuff from the Journal of Critical Realism

• Individual biography and the spatial distribution of variety (or, what the sociological imagination looks like to a critical realist)

• Chris Smith on Religion & Human Personhood

• IACR Annual Conference 2014

• Realism, Reflexivity, Conflation, and Individualism

• The Realist Critique of Materialism

• A dialogue between phenomenology and realism in pedagogical and educational research

• BSA Annual Conference 2014: Changing Society

• CfP: Theory Stream for BSA Annual Conference 2014

• Relationality, Reflexivity and Power

• The constitution of social movements: biography, relations and collectives

• Guest Post: @TGJBrock Reflects on International Association of Critical Realism 2013

• Unpicking habitus and reflexivity: a case study of the stressed academic

• Realism and Human Experience

• Between subjectivity and subjection: untangling the confusion about reflexivity