Critical Realism

LAUNCH

Friday 16 March 5.30 – 8.30 pm
Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way
London WC1H OAL, Room 644

Paperback copies of the Dictionary will be on sale at a 20% discount. All welcome.
The Dictionary  flyer/order form can be downloaded at:
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DAY SEMINAR

Saturday 17 March 9 am – 5.30 pm
Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way
London WC1H OAL, Room 644

Paperback copies of the Dictionary will be on sale at a 20% discount. All welcome

Final Programme

I Transcendental Realism/Critical Naturalism
9 – 10. 40 am

Chair: Mervyn Hartwig

Roy Bhaskar, The Emergence of Critical Realism
David Tyfield, The Debate about Transcendental Arguments in Critical Realism
Dave Elder-Vass, Emergence: Connecting up Metaphysics and Social Ontology

II Critical Realism, Reflexivity and Education

10-50 -12.30 pm
Chair: Caroline New

Margaret Archer, Reflexivity, Education and the Decline of Routine Action
Tone Skinninsrud, Comparing Educational Systems: Theories and Methods
Tony Green, Response/Comment

LUNCH 12.30 – 1.30

III Dialectical Critical Realism: Ethics, Marx and Totalities
1.30 – 3.50
Chair: Nick Hostettler

Alan Norrie, Dialectic, Materialism, Ethics: on Dialectical Critical Realism
Gideon Calder, Critical Realism, Ethics and Universalism
Jolyon Agar, Dialectics and ‘a priorism’ in Hegelian and Marxian philosophies of science
Pär Engholm, Real and Irrealist Totalities

IV The Philosophy of meta-Reality, Education and Emancipation
4.00-5.30

Roy Bhaskar, Mervyn Hartwig and Sean Vertigan discuss recent Australian and UK postgraduate research in the area of education as emancipation