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🙏🏼

Summary Drawing from critical realism and building on previous academic studies and writing theories and practices, the author advances approaches to academic writing that are both human and humane, by situating academic writing within the broader critical realist project of furthering human flourishing and emancipation; of what it means to be human; and of why things matter to people. Addressing what counts as human(e) in academic writing has become pressing, as concerns about machine-generated texts, such as Large Language Models like ChatGPT challenge understandings of truth, knowledge, and justice. Underlying the argument in this chapter is the assumption that writing in the academy is a social practice (specifically, a method of enquiry) that should be oriented towards epistemic virtues including commitment to truth and socially just standards of excellence. For academic writing to fulfil such commitments, the author argues that it needs to be human(e). For it to be human(e), it requires a writer–agent–knower to rationally judge between educative and harmful academic writing theories and practices, in the interests of human flourishing and emancipation. Keywords academic writing being human dharma emancipation explanatory critique flourishing knowledge truth ubuntu

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
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My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography This post was written by Claude (Anthropic’s AI assistant) based on reading approximately 40-50 of my blog posts to trace my intellectual trajectory. I asked Claude to document my “psyc…

Sociology + psychoanalysis: Mark Carrigan’s “My Psychoanalytical Turn” shows how Lacan, Margaret Archer, and Winnicott shaped his thinking. A reflective & unusually candid read. Highly recommend!

#ObjectRelations #Lacan #CriticalRealism #Winnicott #Bollas

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Conjunctural Analysis: A Materialist and Critical-Realist Approach – Coils of the Serpent

I've written a piece on #ConjuncturalAnalysis, which has been published in the open access journal Coils of the Serpent. Drawing upon #Marxism and #CriticalRealism, I argue that the conjuncture is an ontological layer. 1/3

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Pragmatist-Critical Realism as a Research Paradigm

Combining #CriticalRealism and #Pragmatism can produce a more-powerful research paradigm for #DevelopmentStudies

📺 This short video explains how plus a four-step operationalisation methodology:

Critical Realism and Composition Theory | Donald Judd | Taylor & Franc The field of composition theory has emerged as part of the intellectual turmoil and set of pedagogical debates which have beset higher education for the last

AnOther/similar significant reason #AcademicWriting is de-valued by teachers, students, #HigherEducation is that it is not seen as a 'rhetoric of praxis', meaning it has/should have material effects on the world.
#CriticalRealism #AcWri #WhatMakesWritingAcademic
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Relational Agency in Competency-Based Vocational Education Explore the complexities of relational agency in vocational education, addressing challenges in competency-based training and student counselling.

Just noted that @crnetwork.bsky.social has listed my doctoral thesis (2023) in the library of contributions to #CriticalRealism

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Excited to share that our study titled "Addressing the Contradictions of #SocialWork: Lessons from #CriticalRealism, the #SocialSolidarityEconomy, & the #HullHouseTradition Social Work" is published in the journal #SocialSciences, @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social Link: www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14...

transformation and embracing a #criticalrealism approach guided by responsible processes, the journey to #empower #youthfutures collectives in becoming good ancestors takes a significant step forward. #Futuresliteracy #futures @itsanisah.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism and the crisis of replication in psychology In this episode, I interview Dr Rob Archer and we talk about Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism and how it deals with the crisis of replication.   *What is critical realism? *What is the role of ontology?...

Thrilled that my Epistemic Alchemy Podcast interview on Critical Realism & the Replication Crisis in Psychology has hit 200 listens! Thanks to everyone who tuned in and shared it 🙏
Listen here 👉 www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wpmsx-...
#CriticalRealism #ReplicationCrisis #PhilosophyOfScience #Replication

How should epistemic research bridge the 'situated' vs 'objective' knowledge dualism?

This matters because all knowledges are situated but not all advance justice, fairness, truth, emancipation.

As a critical realist, I glimpse a way to bridge this.

But am I wrong?

#CriticalRealism
#MoralRealism

Big in Japan? Bigger than I thought. A neat blog post about critical realism by Hazuki Kajiwara, a researcher at Tokyo's Rikkyo University
#CriticalRealism #JapanHealthcare #JapanesePhilosophy

Presented some ideas on how critical realists can advance the ongoing ecocide debate. Thanks for wonderful and cheering feedback! #IACR #CriticalRealism #ecocide

Critical Realism in Applied Linguistics | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

From January 2026, #CriticalRealism in #AppliedLinguistics will be available from Cambridge University Press edited by Jérémie Bouchard and Karin Zotzmann.

My chapter (ch. 5) argues for a human and humane approach to #AcademicWriting in which truth matters.

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Listening to 'Racism & prejudice' (cf @hackneyabbott.bsky.social comments).

Citing 'empirical' evidence of what some experience at Time 1n as if it exhausts defs. of racism is unsound. Reality is not exhausted by *some* people's personal experiences👀

#CriticalRealism

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Roy Bhaskar.

Still not sure he wasn’t just taking the piss.

#CriticalRealism

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Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course.

Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course.

Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course.

Winding my way back to the UK by train from Braga (Pt) having made my point: the real politik of #GenAI needs embedding in ALL academic writing pedagogies.

It's not enough to teach what-how. It's imperative to teach why this is happening to develop agentic reflexivity and flourish.
#CriticalRealism

@crnetwork.bsky.social
@realistresnevalgp.bsky.social
@rjlhardwick.bsky.social
#CriticalRealism
#RealistEvaluation

Mind and mechanism: Buddhist Abhidhamma and Bhaskar’s critical realism At first glance, the Buddhist Abhidhamma – a systematic framework for analysing mental and physical phenomena – and Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism – a philosophical approach to sc…

Towards a Buddhist Critical Realism? Or am I just over thinking things?

#Buddhism #criticalrealism #religion #philosophy @jacknewman.bsky.social
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"greenwashing would be impossible without the existence of a separation between the in/transitive objects of the world"

#CriticalRealism

AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies Julia Molinari ​ Language technologies (LTs) are not new and a life without them means many things to many people: unimaginable, impractical, unavoidable, undesirable, undemocratic, maybe even a welcome relief. LTs include the familiar (dictionaries, machine translators, spellcheckers) and now the unfamiliar, which is rapidly becoming the new normal: LLMs (Large Language Models) powered by GenAI (GenerativeAI) and, apparently, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) are automating writing in unprecedented ways. I wish to use this talk to press pause, just for a moment, to catch our collective breaths. I would like to halt the dizzying speed at which these technologies are affecting our professional and personal existence by sharing a critical realist perspective (Archer & Maccarini, 2023) on LTs and what it means to be human (Molinari, 2025). This includes reflecting on LTs’ implications for academic literacies broadly understood as multisemiotic modes of communication, which include multilingualism (Lillis & Tuck, 2025). AI Realism entails neither techno-determinism nor techno-enthusiasm nor luddism. Rather, it provides a critical space in which to interrogate why AI has so abruptly irrupted into everyday life and how we might want to respond as educators. For example, it’s no coincidence that ChatGPT was released in the wake of the COVID19 pandemic (Hussain et al., 2024), with significant implications for the development of proctoring and surveillance technologies (McKenna, 2022). It’s also no coincidence that AI is associated with fascist ideologies (McQuillan, 2022). That it remains a black box in terms of how it is trained and by whom also raises concerns for academic writing (Gallagher, 2020). All this presents ideological challenges and opportunities for academic literacies that include, for example, re-visiting what we mean by criticality and agency if these foundational tenets of academi…

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

Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow - Robert Archer, 2024 The commentaries provided by Haig; Derksen and Morawski; and Trafimow vary considerably in how they address critical realism and its implications for replicatio...

In this article, I clarify misunderstandings of #CriticalRealism and defend its relevance to psychology’s #ReplicationCrisis. By challenging methodologism and proposing exploratory stratified contextualism, I offer a more ontologically grounded approach to #psychology. doi.org/10.1177/0959...

Back to the Future: Critical Realism, Education Policy, and the Contextual Legacy of Martin Thrupp - New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies The aim of this article is to extend the explanatory power of Martin Thrupp’s legacy within the framework of critical realism. Specifically, it argues that critical realism’s methodological complement...

This article builds on Thrupp’s realist analysis, using critical realism’s morphogenetic approach to reveal how layered contexts and historical structures shape education policy, while also enabling resistance to dominant neoliberal agendas. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #CriticalRealism

@rjlhardwick.bsky.social @jacknewman.bsky.social

@realistresnevalgp.bsky.social @crnetwork.bsky.social

#AcademicSky
#Psychology #BehaviouralScience
#Causation #Motivation
#CriticalRealism #RealistEvaluation
#CMMO

Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism and the crisis of replication in psychology In this episode, I interview Dr Rob Archer and we talk about Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism and how it deals with the crisis of replication.   *What is critical realism? *What is the role of ontology?...

Can psychology progress without rethinking reality itself? This podcast explores Bhaskar’s critical realism—from stratified ontology to the ground state—and its implications for the replication crisis and beyond. Listen: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wpmsx-... #CriticalRealism #Ontology #ReplicationCrisis

The Epistemic Fallacy in Education: Beyond ‘What Works’ In contemporary educational discourse, the push for evidence-based practice (EBP) and the ‘what works’ policy agenda has gained significant traction. Policymakers and educational leaders emphasise …

The Epistemic Fallacy in Education: Beyond ‘What Works’

EdD thoughts. Criticism welcome.

#education #edusky #uked #research #criticalrealism #whatworks #cogsci #RoyBhaskar

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A new episode of my podcast is out A new episode of my podcast #criticalrealism is out mraei1974.podbean.com/e/roy-bhaska...

Critical discourse analysis as dialectical reasoning: Researching the Early Career Framework.

EdD research poster on combining CDA with CR to better understand the impact of the ECF.

#education #edusky #uked #research #ect #ecf #criticalrealism #cda #teacherdevelopnent

"Rather than either embracing or shunning all that we see, we must instead find ways to manage the risk that comes with trusting that something is correct"

#CriticalThinking

Ask:
Is this true/ correct, likely to be true/correct - how & why?

#ScientificRealism
#CriticalRealism
#RealistEvaluation

(PDF) A Critical Realist Analysis of the Early Career Framework: Combining Fairclough, Bhaskar & Scott PDF | This poster presents a critical realist analysis of the UK government's Early Career Framework (ECF) for teachers by integrating Norman... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Rese...

EdD conference poster: Analysing the Early Career Framework through critical realism—combining Fairclough, Bhaskar, and Scott to uncover hidden structures shaping teacher development. #EducationPolicy #CriticalRealism #TeacherDevelopment #ECF #Research #edusky

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