The Journal of Critical Realism's special issue on "Critical Realism and Criminal Justice: A Dialectical Engagement" is out now, featuring papers by Amanda Wilson, Alan Norrie, Craig Reeves, Paula Cecilia Hollstein Barria, James Kelly White, &Henrique Carvalho/Anastasia Chamberlen: buff.ly/Y74Z9hY

'Guilt, responsibility and the tyranny of the past: Kleinian moral psychology, critical realism and criminal justice' by Craig Reeves is out now in the Journal of Critical Realism:

Lots more papers from the special issue on morphogenetic regulation now available from the Journal of Critical Realism, by Zach Sloman, Margaux Schulz, Andrew Dryhurst, Fabiola Ponte Ordorica, Yazid Zahda, and Krista Garcin: www.tandfonline.com/journals/yjc...

'The Relational Quiddity of Virtual/Digital Reality' - Pierpaolo Donati's new open access paper in the JTSB examines the ontology of digital reality

In our webinar anthonythorpe.bsky.social and jpelonga.bsky.social will talk about their recent book, 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' with responses from helengunter.bsky.social and Lakshman Wimalasena. February 5th, 2:30 to 4pm GMT. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

In 'Climate Emergency and Different Ways to Fail? The Fermi Paradox, the Simulation Hypothesis, Agency and Hope', Jamie Morgan argues that we are not doomed but the climate crisis matters - and yet we are acting as though we are doomed and as if it didn't matter. What hope remains?

New in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour: 'Ayn Rand: Realism, Morality, Selfishness and Capitalism'. Steve Ash argues that Rand's conception of both epistemology and moral value is incompatible with the ontological realism she professes

IACR has announced the first details of the 2026 Annual Conference: 📆Pre-Conference July 27- July 29 📆Conference30 July - 1 August 📍International Institute of Social Science, Den Haag, The Netherlands (hybrid format) More coming soon!

Juan David Parra's new paper 'Trans-immanence, morphogenesis and régulation: new methodological avenues for applied political economy (of education) research' applies the morphogenetic régulation approach to education policy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New open access paper 'Morphogenetic Régulation: An Introduction to the Special Issue' by Karim Knio, available now from the Journal of Critical Realism - and the other papers from the special issue are also starting to appear... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Book symposium: celebrating the 50th anniversary of Roy Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science - with contributions from @daveev.bsky.social , Ruth Groff, @objectoriented.bsky.social , Jonathan Joseph & Doug Porpora. Essential reading for critical realists! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Here's a new open access paper about the social ontology of money from Jamie Morgan in the Cambridge Journal of Economics: academic.oup.com/cje/advance-...

Here's the intro to a special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism (with 5 more papers) on the relation between CR and criminal justice, by Amanda Wilson & Alan Norrie: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Here's a new blog post by Anthony Thorpe and Jean Pierre Elonga Mboyo about their recent book 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/11/05/e...

Part 2 of Jamie Morgan's interview with the early (critical) realist philosopher and eco-socialist Ted Benton is now out in the Journal of Critical Realism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now available! The Critical Realist thesis archive criticalrealismnetwork.org/the-critical... Just the tip of the iceberg so far, but if you have a critical realist thesis you can also submit it!

Here's a new call for papers, for a special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism on critical realism and human-nature relations: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/10/30/c... Looks interesting!

Working in planning? You might be interested in this new call for contributions to an edited book on ‘Critical Realism and Planning’ criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/10/23/c...

The latest book in our Critical Realism book series!

Here's a blog post from Aristide Bertrand about the CSO's new bibliography of Margaret Archer's work: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/09/17/n...

Our friends in the Centre for Social Ontology have just published an online bibliography of the work of Margaret Archer - will be a useful resource for many critical realists. Here it is: socialontology.org/people/marga...

Learn about recent developments in critical realism in Japan in our latest blog post, from Hazuki Kajiwara: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/08/28/c...

Including 'A critical realist exploration of harassment in platform work' by ‪@quinlanresearch Tracey Carr & Xing Luo www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The new issues of Journal of Critical Realism, (24:2) is now available online including papers on living sustainably, false memory, harassment in platform work and greenwashing www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjcr20/2...

And there's lots more photos here: iacr.fmweb.pl/conference-d... With many thanks to the Academy of Applied Sciences for hosting

This year's annual conference of the International Association of Critical Realism going very smoothly in Szczecin, Poland. Here's Juan David Parra talking about the Global Learning Crisis in Education, in a room named after Margaret Archer

New in the JTSB: 'The Governing Dynamics of Social Reality: A Unified Theory' by Gustaf Glava - brings together John Searle's social ontology with Dave Elder-Vass's norm circle theory @daveev.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

'Navigating the “crossroads”: Critical realism as the middle path in critical social work research' - new paper in the Journal of Social Work by @sandyrao.bsky.social et al journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New in the journal of critical realism: 'Researching the self in critical realist biographical research: understanding the temporality of self’s concerns' by Michalis Christodoulou buff.ly/H0zIsby

New in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour: 'Patrimonial Imperialism: A Taxonomy of the Causes of the Russo-Ukrainian War' - a critical realist analysis by @pierzynskigabriel.bsky.social and Jonathan Joseph buff.ly/ZcM52KZ

New in the Journal of Critical Realism: review by Mikhail Perevozov of Michael Devitt's 2023 book on Biological Essentialism. Devitt challenges current dismissals of biological essentialism - lots of interest here for critical realists! buff.ly/Warfj1W

New in the Journal of Critical Realism: 'Remembering Petter Naess' by Leigh Price and Lene Nyhus. Petter was a good friend of Roy Bhaskar and a founding member of the Scandinavian critical realist group buff.ly/4yuVPxx

New this week from Alex Stavrianos in Educational Theory: 'Unveiling the Layers of Reality: An Exploration of Critical Realism in Interdisciplinary Research' buff.ly/0Z2zvaP

Here's a fascinating new paper from Karim Knio: 'Embeddedness and entanglement between the methods of Articulation and Calibration'. Drawing on Spinozian philosophy of Substance and Critical Realism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

New in Journal of Critical Realism: Bob Jessop's review of @sorenmau.bsky.social new book on Marx and the economic power of capital

New paper in the Journal of Critical Realism: 'The false memory controversy: a critical realist clarification' by David Pilgrim www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

And here's another great critical realist interview: part 1 of Jamie Morgan's interview with Clive Spash: 'The road to Social Ecological Economics' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Want to submit an abstract for the IACR conference in Szczecin this summer? The deadline is now 6 July. Register for 'active participation' at iacr.fmweb.pl/application-... then email your abstract to: [email protected] Also works for remote participants!

New in the Journal of Critical Realism: 'Greenwashing: a critical realist approach to the study of false ecological claims' by Andreas Roos www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Watch the book launch from the latest publication from the Routledge Studies in Critical Realism series ‪@crnetwork.bsky.social‬ ‘Codes of corruption’ by Karin Zotzmann uses CR discourse analysis to examine rich conversational transcripts of illicit transactions.

Just added to our (long) list of links to critical realist interviews: Hubert Buch-Hansen's 2005 interview with Roy Bhaskar for the journal Distinktion. Well worth a read! criticalrealismnetwork.org/interviews/

Did you miss our webinar on Karin Zotzmann's new book 'Codes of Corruption'? Or was it so good you want to hear it again? You're in luck! You can watch it again here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3YY...

Only two days to go until Karin's webinar! Join up via eventbrite to learn about a fascinating critical realist book analysing transcripts of real corruption conversations.

New in Journal of Critical Realism: 'A critical realist exploration of harassment in platform work' by Elizabeth Quinlan, Tracey Carr & Xing Luo: "identifies harassment as an emergent property of the structural characteristics of the labour process that interact with workers' agency"

Have you signed up yet for our next critical realist book launch seminar? Karin Zotzmann will be discussing her new book Codes of Corruption on May 14th 2025 at 2.30pm (UK: GMT+1). Sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Have you signed up yet for our next critical realist book launch seminar? Karin Zotzmann will be discussing her new book Codes of Corruption on May 14th 2025 at 2.30pm (UK: GMT+1). Find out more: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/03/27/c...

With @csc-barrington.bsky.social ...

Karin Zotzmann’s 'Codes of Corruption: A Critical Realist Discourse Analysis of Illicit Transactions' is out soon in the Critical Realism book series. Join us on May 14th 2.30pm BST, where Karin will discuss it with Robert Barrington & Gareth Wiltshire. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Interesting contribution to the debate about what might be basic tenets of critical realism through the idea of threshold concepts. There's subtlety in their argument that these concepts help those new to CR to understand what's going on, rather than ones that all critical realists hold.