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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 Studi...

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?

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🙏🏼

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

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/critical-realism-in-applied-linguistics/what-makes-academic-writing-humane/C0B8F2E866A5750FE9B4C19FD04FD78A

📘 Have you written a PhD using critical realism?

The critical realism network has just launched a thesis archive to collect these as a public resource:

Our thesis archive provides links to doctoral theses written by critical realist scholars, as a resource to help other researchers understand how critical realism can be employed in social research.

#criticalRealism #doctoral #PhD #thesis

I'll be giving this year's keynote at #EATAW25 - alongside Suresh Canagarajah & Federico Navarro - on:

'AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies' (cf abstract) {JM}
🤞
#PACEspace #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #GenAI #CriticalRealism #OpenUniversity

www.eataw2025.com/keynote

#bookReview; a new category of #blogs from #MoonLitPress! We review and recommend "To Travel Well, Travel Light" by Mary Coday Edwards. Edwards is at once a deep thinker and deeply spiritual. This extraordinary memoir recounts Edwards’ global quest for religious belonging.

https://blog.moonlitpress.org/To-Travel-Well-Travel-Light

#wordsByTerryl #bookwyrm #religion #sbnr
#writing
#SpiritualNotReligious
#CriticalRealism
#SurvivingChristianity
#JungianSpirituality
#JesusMovement

I liked this article for many reasons, including:

- it affords supervisors/ees a portal into #CriticalRealism

- it's written to build community through troublesome #ThresholdConcepts

Thinking like a critical realist: getting through the portal. Journal of Critical Realism https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2025.2458550

How did #CriticalRealism respond to Groff on truth?

[Since ditching FB, can't ask the CR community. Hoping someone here can help].

Groff, R. (2000). The Truth of the Matter: Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism and the Concept of Alethic Truth. Philosophy of the Social Sciences https://doi.org/10.1177/004839310003000304

@petersuber @academicchatter the journal of #CriticalRealism has a whole list, including bluesky and mastodon - not sure if this link takes you there but click on any recent article published JCR and the share options are huge: https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2F

A humanistic approach to #GAI:

"humans communicate on the basis of word-world relationships, [...] AI technologies [are] to word-word'

#AcWri
#ArtificialIntelligence
#CompositionStudies
#Humanities
#CriticalRealism
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#Emancipation
#AppliedLinguistics
#HigherEd

https://rdcu.be/d3AMw

This article argues that #CriticalRealism
(CR) should develop its own theory of #AcademicWriting
because of CR’s explicit commitment to #HumanEmancipation
and #StratifiedOntology
[1/n]
#AcWri

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767430.2024.2429225#abstract

"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanism

#ExplanatoryCritique

#CriticalRealism

#Emancipation

#AcWri

#AppliedLinguistics

#SocioLinguistics

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641

Just ordered, partly because I need definitions of #humanism
to reclaim humanity & reality in ways compatible with #CriticalRealism; partly because I need historical & intellectual solace - words, arguments, guidance, visions on how to be in #Academia

#SocialJustice

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641

"A rational case for a critical realist theory of academic writing" has today been accepted for publication in the Journal of #CriticalRealism

Basically, #AcademicWriting
must be emancipatory, educative, committed to truth.

Hoaxes, #IELTS, #GAI
don't meet the criteria.

#AcWri
#ExplanatoryCritique

"one must assume not only that there is a way of determining [...], what a better world might look like, but also that there is a way for this ‘concrete utopian’ vision to become shared [...]"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767430.2019.1638133

#normativity #SocialJustice #MoralRealism #Democracy

#CriticalRealism

[furiously writing 'contractions' instead of 'contradictions' - someone somewhere is trying to tell me something] ✍🏽✍🏽✍🏽

#AcWri #CriticalRealism

How might we flourish in this crisis of modernity?

"While promoting a more loving world is a compelling reason to write a book, it is not why Love and the Market emerged."

#Love #CriticalRealism #AcWri (and 'bad' writing) #Witches #Capitalism #Marxism

https://criticalrealismnetwork.org/2024/10/10/can-a-critical-realist-conception-of-love-help-us-to-flourish-through-the-crises-of-modernity/

Currently reading #AllAboutLove by #bellhooks

Linking it to #AcWri and #CriticalRealism

I'm reading moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre ('a short history of ethics' & 'after virtue').

I'm beginning to grasp why there are many references to him in #CriticalRealism.

He seems to be more of an aristotelian than platonist, so far, but I've got a fair amount to read before I can be sure.

I🧡Laurel Richardson's approach to academic writing generally and this, specifically, because of the focus on writer agency, choice, & the complexities of referring to the 'world' (or REALITY).

#AcWri
#AcademicLiteracies
#ResearchWriting
#AcademicChatter
#PhD
#ArtificialIntelligence
#CriticalRealism

Following our recent symposium we are inviting short blog posts (750-1500 words) reflecting on the intellectual legacy of Margaret Archer. These will be published on the Critical Realism Network blog. Here are some examples of themes these posts could address:

1. Archer’s Place in Sociological Theory:  the ways in which Archer’s ideas have been received, challenged, and transformed within the discipline. 
2. Archer’s Work within the Larger Dialogues of Critical Realism: the ways in which Archer’s ideas have contributed to and challenged the critical realist tradition. 
3. The Global Reception of Archer’s Work: the ways in which Archer’s ideas have been received, interpreted and adapted in different places. We want to explore both Archer’s role in the internationalization of British sociology, as well as the reception of her work in different countries of the Global North and Global South.
4. Archer’s Work Beyond Critical Realism: the ways in which Archer’s work has been influenced by and has influenced traditions, debates and issues beyond critical realism, such as pragmatism, moral philosophy and the philosophy of science.

We welcome submissions from scholars at all stages of their careers, including graduate students and early-career researchers. We also encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and contributions from scholars working in related fields, such as philosophy, anthropology, and political science.

If you’re interested in submitting a post, please contact Mark Carrigan with your idea initially.

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/08/%f0%9f%93%8dcall-for-blog-posts-the-legacy-of-margaret-archer/

#criticalRealism #margaretArcher #MorphogeneticApproach #socialMorphogenesis #socialRealism

What do you understand by the verbs 'construe' & 'construct'?

Which would you use & why to describe the way language (or we/#AI) refers to/represents reality?
#CriticalRealism

#Hermeneutics

#CriticalDiscourseAnalysis

#Contructionism

#CriticalTheory

#PostStructuralism

#Deconstruction

#Discourse

#LLM

August 3rd, 10am-5pm at the University of Warwick

Margaret Archer’s work has had a profound impact on social theory, challenging and reshaping our understanding of agency, structure, culture and their interplay in producing social change. Her contributions to the discipline have been wide-ranging, from critical interventions in conceptual debates to discussions about the nature of our times. Archer’s engagements with other thinkers, both within and outside the critical realist tradition, have shaped contemporary sociological debates.

Karim Knio – The Immanent Causality Morphogenetic Approach (TBC)

Juan David Parra – Archer’s Morphogenesis and the Political Economy of Education Systems

Krzysztof Wielecki – The presence of Margaret Scotford Archer in Polish sociology

Lakshman Wimalasena – Reflexivity in Practice: Advancing the Working Experience through a Reflexive [Co-Design] Intervention

Richard Remelie – Measuring reflexivity

Ka Lok Yip – Archerian Realism and Phenomenology: Friends or Foes?

Anzhela Popyk – Structure and Agency: Transnational and School Transitions of Ukrainian Forced Migrant Adolescents in Poland

Catherine Hastings – Developing critical realist empirical research using Archer’s explanatory framework

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/07/18/%f0%9f%93%8djoin-us-on-august-3rd-to-celebrate-the-intellectual-legacy-of-margaret-archer/

#criticalRealism #margaretArcher #MorphogeneticApproach #socialRealism

"[...] if our need for fossil fuels is an addiction, the addicts are being told to stop while the dealers are getting government support!" 🔥
(Andrew Sayer, p. 334)

#WhyWeCantAffordTheRich - a book on #SocioEconomics that keeps on giving

#ClimateEmergency
#CostOfGreedCrisis

#CriticalRealism

Thank you:

- Reviewer 2: "an important contribution to critical realism, critical realist research, & academic writing"

- Reviewer 1: "thank you for allowing me the opportunity to read & learn from your text"

- Editors, for inviting me to review & re-submit

#CriticalRealism #AcWri #AcademicPublishing

Sharing 2 talks I'll be giving in the coming months because they both excite me & terrify me.

I'd welcome informed critical & constructive reactions to both abstracts.

#IACR2024
#METM24

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/events/iacr-2024

https://www.metmeetings.org/en/keynote-speakers:1606

#CriticalRealism #AcWri #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #GAI

Can 'deconstruction' and 'immanent critique' be considered as equivalent methods of argumention and analysis, and could they be used interchangeably?

Or does the fact that they are born of very specific philosophical traditions/philosophers (#Derrida v. Hegel-Marx) mean that their use is constrained by thinking within those traditions?

But do they do the same job, ie expose internal contradictions?

#CriticalRealism

Today also made me reflect on our article, the 'limits of #translingualism':

https://apples.journal.fi/article/view/114738

I attended a UK academic webinar on 'decolonising the university and linguistic diversity' and couldn't help feeling how introspective and conservative it was - no mention of deep colonial structures (such as capitalism), powers (eg prejudice), political mechanisms (eg visas, brexit, fees), agencies (the choices we make) or how change is actioned beyond being 'reflexive'

🤔

#CriticalRealism