Journal of Critical Realism

ISSNs: 1476-7430, 1572-5138

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    From a realist epistemology to ecosocialism: an interview with Ted Benton, part 1.Ted Benton & Jamie Morgan - 2025 - Journal of Critical Realism 24 (1):76-107.
    Ted Benton has had a long and distinguished career and made important contributions in realist philosophy, ecology and Marxism. In part 1 of this wide-ranging interview he discusses his formative years and education, how he came to have an enduring interest in ecology and natural history, and his early work and career. In particular he discusses two matters of special interest to realists. First, how he came to write, and the key arguments contained in, Philosophical Foundations of the Three Sociologies. (...)
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    Thinking like a critical realist: getting through the portal.Catherine Hastings, Karen Sheppard & Angela Davenport - 2025 - Journal of Critical Realism 24 (1):56-75.
    Critical realism has a reputation for requiring substantial intellectual commitment and time to gain understanding, and being difficult to operationalize as an empirical research methodology. Our paper employs the theoretical framework of ‘threshold concepts’ to explore these issues. We illustrate the five qualities of ‘threshold concepts’ using existing literature by scholars describing their journey of engagement with critical realism. We then apply the framework from three viewpoints. First, we offer the perspective of a budding critical realist scholar who transforms their (...)
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    Thinking like a critical realist: getting through the portal.Catherine Hastings, Karen Sheppard & Angela Davenport - 2025 - Journal of Critical Realism 24 (1):56-75.
    Critical realism has a reputation for requiring substantial intellectual commitment and time to gain understanding, and being difficult to operationalize as an empirical research methodology. Our paper employs the theoretical framework of ‘threshold concepts’ to explore these issues. We illustrate the five qualities of ‘threshold concepts’ using existing literature by scholars describing their journey of engagement with critical realism. We then apply the framework from three viewpoints. First, we offer the perspective of a budding critical realist scholar who transforms their (...)
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  4. The ebb and flow of liberal reformism: a critical realist contribution to the analysis of the Duterte presidency in the Philippines.Juan Alberto Mercado - 2025 - Journal of Critical Realism 24 (1):37-55.
    After supplanting one of the most liberally oriented governments in recent Philippine history, the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte navigated a tumultuous six-year term subject to sustained criticism of wanton disregard for human rights and controversial foreign policy. He was succeeded by Ferdinand Marcos II, heir to the authoritarian figure whose downfall marked the restoration of liberal democracy in 1986. Selected literature from contemporary Filipino scholars explores this phenomenon in three themes: (1) a population’s susceptibility to manipulative disinformation, (2) discursive interactions (...)
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    The ebb and flow of liberal reformism: a critical realist contribution to the analysis of the Duterte presidency in the Philippines.Juan Alberto Mercado - 2025 - Journal of Critical Realism 24 (1):37-55.
    After supplanting one of the most liberally oriented governments in recent Philippine history, the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte navigated a tumultuous six-year term subject to sustained criticism of wanton disregard for human rights and controversial foreign policy. He was succeeded by Ferdinand Marcos II, heir to the authoritarian figure whose downfall marked the restoration of liberal democracy in 1986. Selected literature from contemporary Filipino scholars explores this phenomenon in three themes: (1) a population’s susceptibility to manipulative disinformation, (2) discursive interactions (...)
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    Deleuze’s concept of virtuality and critical realist ontology.Tobin Nellhaus - 2025 - Journal of Critical Realism 24 (1):2-20.
    Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the virtual is rooted in a tradition that conceptualizes it in terms of potentiality rather than illusion or falsity. His theory of the relationship between the virtual, the actual, the real, and the possible presents similarities with critical realism’s ontological domains of the real and the actual, and thus offers alternative and/or additional realist ways of thinking about those domains, especially regarding causal powers residing in relationships rather than entities. Virtuality applies to the empirical domain as (...)
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    Deleuze’s concept of virtuality and critical realist ontology.Tobin Nellhaus - 2025 - Journal of Critical Realism 24 (1):2-20.
    Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the virtual is rooted in a tradition that conceptualizes it in terms of potentiality rather than illusion or falsity. His theory of the relationship between the virtual, the actual, the real, and the possible presents similarities with critical realism’s ontological domains of the real and the actual, and thus offers alternative and/or additional realist ways of thinking about those domains, especially regarding causal powers residing in relationships rather than entities. Virtuality applies to the empirical domain as (...)
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    A new era for the Journal of Critical Realism.Leigh Price - 2025 - Journal of Critical Realism 24 (1):1-1.
    As I write this, my final editorial for the Journal of Critical Realism (JCR), I find myself reflecting on its history. It was initiated to contribute to the development of critical realist approac...
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    On the possibility of morphocide: can fossil capitalism be dismantled?Christian Ståhl - 2025 - Journal of Critical Realism 24 (1):21-36.
    Society and its social forms develop through the social interactions of various agents. The tempo of such transformations has increased over the last decades, which implies a growing mass of obsolete and dead social forms. One persisting social form whose death is overdue, given its effect on climate change, is fossil capitalism. This article introduces the term morphocide, which is defined as the active ending of social forms and denotes the deliberate dismantling of an existing system to promote the growth (...)
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  10. On the possibility of morphocide: can fossil capitalism be dismantled?Christian Ståhl - 2025 - Journal of Critical Realism 24 (1):21-36.
    Society and its social forms develop through the social interactions of various agents. The tempo of such transformations has increased over the last decades, which implies a growing mass of obsolete and dead social forms. One persisting social form whose death is overdue, given its effect on climate change, is fossil capitalism. This article introduces the term morphocide, which is defined as the active ending of social forms and denotes the deliberate dismantling of an existing system to promote the growth (...)
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