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Introduction

The articles, reviews, messages, etc., archived here have been collected from various sources in an effort (a) to provide visitors to this Web site with positive examples of critical realist work and (b) to encourage critical realists to engage in a dialogue with their critics (and others). The project of developing critical realism on an interdisciplinary basis is now in full swing, and you are welcome to participate by submitting papers (or responses to papers, or class notes, or anything else you think might be appropriate) for inclusion here. Enjoy!

Alstead, Jacob.

  • "Models of Human Motivation in Sociology" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Archer, Margaret.

  • "Realism and the Problem of Mediation between Structure and Agency" (PDF), keynote speech, presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Bache, Ida Wolden.

  • "Critical Realism and Econometrics" (PDF), working paper (Oslo: Norges Bank Research Department, 2003).

Bauer, Leonhard.

  • "Markets, Maximisation, Money and Infinity -- Our modern religion" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Bhaskar, Roy (1944- ).

  • A Realist Theory of Science (full text of book up to and including Ch. 3.5, as posted to the BHASKAR email discussion list)

  • "Roy Bhaskar Interviewed" (questions by Professor Christopher Norris). Courtesy of The Philosophers' Magazine.

Brandt, Thomas.

  • "Levels and Ontological Models in Sociology" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Broad, C.D. (1887-1971). Cambridge philosopher, author of many thorough works on science, mind, ethics, and psychical research.

  • "Critical and Speculative Philosophy," Contemporary British Philosophy: Personal Statements (First series), ed. J. H. Muirhead (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1924): 77-100.

Brown, Andrew.

  • "Developing Realistic Methodology: How New Dialectics Surpasses the Critical Realist Method for Social Science" (discussion paper)

Callewaert, Staf, and Jette Steensen.

  • "Constructivism and Critical Realism in the Sociology of Education of Bourdieu" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Crinson, Iain.

  • "A Realist Approach to the Analysis of Focus Group Data" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Cruikshank, Justin.

  • "First Principles: What Are They and Who Needs Them" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Danermark, Berth.

  • "Interdisciplinary Research and Critical Realism--The Example of Disability Research" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Dow, Sheila.

  • "Historical Reference: Hume and Critical Realism" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Downward, Paul, and Andrew Mearman.

  • "Critical Realism and Econometrics: Constructive Dialogue with Post Keynsian Economics" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Ekstrom, Mats.

  • "Causal Explanation of Social Action: The Contribution of Max Weber and of Critical Realism to a Generative View of Causal Explanation in Social Science," Acta Sociologica: Journal of the Scandinavian Sociological Association 35 (1992): 107-122.

Ehrbar, Hans.

  • "Capitalism Today and the Labour Theory of Value" (PDF), paper presented at the Delta Marsh Conference of the University of Manitoba, 17 November 2001, and at the ERC-METU international conference in Economics on 14 September 2002.

  • "Critical Realist Arguments in Marx's Capital" (PDF), a chapter in the book Marxism and Critical Realism (2000).

  • "Irrealist Lines of Defense in Econometrics" (PDF), paper presented at the IACR conference in Lancaster, England, 18-20 August 2000.

  • "Marxism and Critical Realism" (PDF), seminar presentation at University of Utah (1998).

Fairclough, Norman, Bob Jessop, and Andrew Sayer.

  • "Semiotic Conditions of Social Reproduction and Transformation" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Famiglietti, A.

  • "For a Realist Definition of Social Movements" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Feldman, Marshall.

  • "Can We Talk? Interpretive Planning Theory as Comedy," Planning Theory 17 (1997): 43-64. (response to an article by Charlie Hoch, also published in Planning Theory)

Fettes, Mark.

  • "Critical Realism and Ecological Psychology: Foundations for a Naturalist Theory of Language Acquisition" (discussion paper)

Finch, John, and Robert McMaster.

  • "Non-Parametric Statistical Inference in Pursuit of Causal Explanations" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Fleetwood, Steve.

  • "The Marriage of Realism and Marxism: Happy, Unhappy, or on the Rocks?" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Fog, Agner.

  • "Mass Media and Democracy Crises--A Search for Causality across Paradigms" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Gijselinckx, Caroline.

  • "Towards a Generative Network Approach of the Epistemological, Ontological, and Empirical in Social Research" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Gorman, David.

  • "Critical Unrealism," review of A Meeting of Minds: Socialists Discuss Philosophy--Towards a New Symposium by Roy Bhaskar, ed., Radical Chains 1.4 (1998): np.

Han, Gil-Soo.

  • "The Myth of Medical Pluralism: A Critical Realist Perspective," Sociological Research Online 6.4 (2002) <http://www.socresonline.org.uk/6/4/han.html>,

Hartwig, Mervyn.

  • "Creaven, Marxism, and Realism," notes and comments on Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences by Sean Creaven.

  • "Re: God & Bhaskar," reply to Gary MacLennan's "From East to West--A book too far?"

  • "Summary of Roy Bhaskar's From East to West" (25 November 2001)

Hay, Colin.

  • "What Place for Ideas in the Structure-Agency Debate? Globalisation as a 'Process Without a Subject,'" First Press (2001): n.p.

Hodgson, Geoffrey M.

  • "Some Claims Made for Critical Realism in Economics: Two Case Studies," Journal of Economic Methodology 11.1 (March 2004): 53-73.

Jesperson, Jesper.

  • "Macroeconomic Methodology--A Post Keynsian Perspective" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

  • "Why Critical Realism is Important for Macroeconomic Theory" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Jessop, Bob.

  • "Complexity, Critical Realism, and the Strategic-Relational Approach: Comments on the Critique of Political Economy" (PDF), keynote speech, presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Karlsson, Jan.

  • "The Ontology of Work: Social Relations and Doing in the Sphere of Necessity" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Kaul, Nitasha.

  • "'Theory' on Critical Realist Terms/Contextual Social Polical Economy" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Knudson, Thorbjoern.

  • "Dynamic Time and Originative Choice: Shackle Revisited" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Koch, Carsten.

  • "Causal Explanation, Intentionality, Determinism, and Prediction" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Laski, Harold.

  • "Karl Marx: An Essay" (1922)

Lawson, Julie.

  • "Comparing the Causal Mechanisms Underlying Housing Networks over Time and Space" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Lee, Fred.

  • "Theory Creation and the Methodological Foundations of Post Keynsianism" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

MacLennan, Gary.

  • "Beyond Rhetoric (and Scepticism): A Critical Realist Perspective on Carl R. Plantinga," review of Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film by Carl R. Plantinga.

    • Plantinga, Carl R.
      A Naive Reply to MacLennan and Raskin, Film-Philosophy: Electronic Salon, 16 March 1998.

  • "Documentary Philosophy: The Aesthetic Dimension" (article)

  • "Documentary Theory and the Dialectic: A Dialectical Critical Realist Approach" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

  • "From East to West--A book too far?," review of From East to West: Odyssey of a Soul by Roy Bhaskar.

    • Hartwig, Mervyn.
      "Re: God & Bhaskar," reply to Gary MacLennan's "From East to West--A book too far?"

  • "Notes for a Reading Group: A Short Intro to the Critical Realist Approach to Science" (discussion paper)

  • "Rothman and the Challenge of Critical Realism," review of Documentary Film Classics by William Rothman.

Mearman, Andrew.

  • "On the Coherence of Post Keynsian Economics: Is Critical Realism Dow-Dualist?" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Mitropolous, Maria.

  • "Demonic Curiosity and Documentary Photography" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Morgan, Jamie.

  • "Hippocratic Realism: nils carborundum illegitimi?" (paper)

Morton, Adam David.

  • "Gramsci, Realism and Revolution," review of Hegemony: A Realist Analysis by Jonathan Joseph and From Marx to Gramsci: A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics by Paul Le Blanc (ed.), First Review 3 (2002): n.p.

Moura, Mario de Graca.

  • "Metatheory as the Key to Understanding: Schumpeter after Shionoya" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Mutch, Alistair.

  • "Critical Realism and Information Systems: An Exploration" (discussion paper)

Naess, Peter, and Ole B. Jensen.

  • "Urban Land Use, Mobility and Theory of Science" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

New, Caroline.

  • "Rom Harre," profile written for The Web Site for Critical Realism (WSCR), at the request of the WSCR Collective.

Olsen, Wendy K.

  • "Developing Open-Systems Interpretations of Path Analyses: Fragility Analysis Using Farm Data from India," paper prepared for the Conference of the Centre for Critical Realism and the International Association for Critical Realism, University of Örebro, Sweden, August 1999.

  • "Originality or Collective Progress in the Social Sciences?," review of Social Science in Question by M. J. Smith.

O'Ruairc, Liam.

  • "Fundamentally Irreconcilable," review of Christianity and Marxism: A Philosophical Contribution to Their Reconciliation by Andrew Collier, Weekly Worker 469 (Thursday, February 27, 2003): n.p.

Özel, Hüseyin.

  • "Closing Open Systems: The 'Double Hermeneutics' in Economics" (PDF), paper presented at the METU International Conference in Economics VI, 11-14 September 2002.

Pastrello, Gabriele.

  • "The Unicorn and Effective Demand" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Patomaki, Heikki.

  • "Economics of Financial Instability" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Peacock, Mark.

  • "Explaining Theory Choice: An Assessment of the Critical Realist Contribution to Explanation" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Pinkstone, Brian.

  • "Econometrics versus Contrastives: Alternative Approaches to Explanation in Economic History--A Case Study" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Potter, Garry.

  • "Power-Knowledge: A Dialectical Contradition" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Pratschke, Jonathan.

  • "Critical Realism and Methodological Pluralism in the Social Sciences" (PDF), Philosophica 71 (2003): 13-38.

Puehretmayer, Hans.

  • "Critical Realism, Cultural Studies and Althusser on Ideology" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Rosenbaum, Eckehard.

  • "What is a Market? On the Methodology of a Contested Concept" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Sheuer, Steen.

  • "The Social Dimension of Rational Choice--A Critical and Realist View of Theories of Motivation and Agency at Work" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Shipman, Alan.

  • "How Markets Get Started: Mainstream Approaches, Critical Realist Alternatives" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Smithin, John.

  • "Macroeconomic Theory and Capitalism" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Spencer, Neville.

  • "The Rediscovery of Reality," review of Critical Realism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Roy Bhaskar by Andrew Collier and Plato Etc: The Problems of Philosophy and Their Resolution by Roy Bhaskar, Green Left Weekly 190 (June 7, 1995): n.p.

Suzuki, Hidenori.

  • "Money and Discourse: From a Realist Perspective" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Taylor, Dave.

  • "Real People, Real Science, Real Economics" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Thakur, Manindra.

  • "Debating Realism(s): Marxism and Nyaya-Vaishesika" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Thomas, Peter.

  • "Cultural Studies: A Critical Realist Intervention" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Trotsky, Leon.

  • "The ABC of Materialist Dialectics," 15th December, 1939.

Verstegen, Ian.

  • "Bhaskar and American Critical Realism" (article)

Viskovatoff, Alex.

  • "Critical Realism from a Kantian Point of View" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Wad, Peter.

  • "Critical Realism and Comparative Sociology" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

Wainwright, Stephen.

  • "For Bordieu in Realist Social Science" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Wood, John.

  • "Understanding Monetary Policy. Caution: Critical Realists at Work" (PDF), paper presented at the Cambridge Realist Workshop Conference 2000.

Zeuner, Lilli.

  • "Sociological Concepts between Construction and Change" (PDF), paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August 2001.

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