CRITICAL REALISM – Asia Pacific
"Thou shalt commit ontology."
Posts that are meant to offer critical realist insights for reflection and discussion
Our sixth bite-size lecture is Part 2 of the critical realist theory of ONTOLOGICAL EMERGENCE:
The mini-lecture focuses on some of the implications of this critical realist theory: scientific explanations, a conception of the mind, of society, of the human person, and the different sciences. It also offers a critique of reductionism, determinism, and the so-called “theory of everything.”
This is our fifth mini-lecture for the Bite-Size Critical Realist series. This is Part 1: An Open System of Emergent Causes. It tackles the concept of ONTOLOGICAL EMERGENCE.
Ontological emergence further nuances the redefinition of causality resulting from the notion of the OPEN SYSTEM. Part 2 will tackle the implications of ontological emergence in our conceptualization of the human person and freedom.
This fourth lecture from he Bite-Size Critical Realist tackles the concept of OPEN-SYSTEMIC CAUSALITY based on Bhaskar’s transcendental analysis of experimental activity.
The idea of the world as an open system redefines causality, in the process, evaluating the goal of the sciences in predicting phenomena and the notion of determinism with regard to human beings as well as nature. Open-systemic causality is one of the five basic insights of Critical Realism.
The third episode of the Bite-Size Critical Realist is here: a 15-minute talk on depth stratification, another fundamental insight in Roy Bhaskar’s original or basic critical realism. Learn about this concept and its significance today.
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The second episode of the Bite-Size Critical Realist is a 15-minute talk on existential intransitivity, a central concept in Roy Bhaskar’s original or basic critical realism. It is a concept that is more relevant than ever.
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Here is a 12-minute talk on the critical realist notion of judgemental rationality, its relation to ontological realism and epistemic relativism. These three concepts–often referred to as ‘the holy trinity of critical realism’–are central to the epistemology that emerges from Roy Bhaskar’s philosophy of the sciences.
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Interested in social theory, moral economy, social morphogenesis, the ethical life, the structure-agency problem, political economy, philosophy of science, social ontology?
社会理論、モラルエコノミー、ソーシャル・モルフォジェネシス、エシカル・ライフ、構造－エージェンシー論争、政治経済学、科学哲学、社会的存在論が気になっているみなさん。英国を代表する４人のクリティカル・リアリストが、アジア太平洋地域の研究者と学生の質問に答えます。
May 18, 2018, 2:00pm – 3:30pm BST with DAVE ELDER-VASS
Interests: social theory, social ontology, political economy, philosophy of science (関心分野: 社会理論、社会的存在論、social economy、科学哲学)
Blog: Materially Social
Books: The Causal Power of Social Structures: Emergence, Structure and Agency (2010), The Reality of Social Construction (2012); Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy (2017). See other publications here.
May 21, 2018, 1:00pm – 2:30pm BST with ANDREW SAYER
Interests: social welfare and moral economy, values and ethical life (関心分野: 社会福祉とモラル・エコノミー、価値とエシカル・ライフ)
Books: Why We Can’t Afford The Rich (2015); Why Things Matter To People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life 2011; Realism and Social Science (1999); Method in Social Science (1992). See other publications here.
May 23, 2018, 1:00pm – 2:30pm BST with MARGARET ARCHER
Interests: the problem of structure and agency, morphogenesis, social ontology (関心分野: 構造とエージェンシー、モルフォジェネシス、社会的存在論)
Books: Social Morphogenesis, 5 Volumes; Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation; Being Human: The Problem of Agency; Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (1995). See other publications here.
May 24, 2018, 10:00am – 11:30pm BST with TONY LAWSON
Interests: social ontology, philosophy of science, political economy/history of thought (関心分野: 社会的存在論、科学哲学、ポリティカル・エコノミー、思想史)
Books: The Nature and State of Modern Economics (2015); Reorienting Economics (2003); Economics and Reality (1997). See other publications here.
… will be taking questions from scholars and students of critical realism from the Asia Pacific.
Or post your questions now! Deadline for questions is May 11, 2018.
1. ここをクリックして質問を投げかけてくださいhere 。 質問の締め切りは５月１１日です。
2. クリティカル・リアリズム・ネットワーク－アジア太平洋（CRN-AP）がインタヴューの音声と動画を websiteで利用できるようにします。
英語と日本語。インタヴューは英語で行われます。質問は、英語と日本語で受け付けます。ビデオの日本語字幕を作成するボランティアも募集しています。
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