Critical Realism

Next up at the Cambridge Realist Workshopon Monday
November 5, the speaker is:
Ben Fine
giving a talk entitled:
“The Economics of Identity and the Identity of
Ecoinomics.”

As usual (’free’) wine is available from 7:30pm onwards, and
the talk starts at 8pm.

NB the programme for the term and directions to the seminar
room in which we meet can be obtained from the following site:

http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/seminars/realist/workshop program
me.htm

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Just a reminder that tonight (Monday October 29, 2007, at 8pm
– though with ‘refreshment’ from 7:30pm) at the Cambridge
Realist Workshop (at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane), there will be a
talk by:

All Welcome!

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Next up at the Cambridge Realist Workshop on Monday October 22,  the speaker is:

Brian Pinkstone

giving a talk entitled:

“Some Applications of critical realism”

A background paper (it is just a background paper) is attached

Brian Pinkstone was the Foundation Head of the School of Economics and Finance at the University of Western Sydney, (Australia) from 2001 to 2007. Brian’s main discipline is economic history and he has written a major work in the field: Global Connections: A History of Exports and the Australian Economy, (AGPS 1992).   The philosophical approach to scientific method known as critical realism informs his work.

As usual (free) wine is available from 7:30pm onwards, and the talk starts at 8pm.

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Engaging Realism

matonianuk@yahoo.co.uk or kmaton@usyd.edu.au.

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Realism and the environment – perspectives on the environment from Critical Realism and beyond
A one day workshop

Lead speakers: Ted Benton (Essex) and Ingolfur Bluehdorn (Bath)
Venue: 2S066 Frenchay Campus, University of the West of England, Bristol

Programme:
10-1030: meet and coffee
1030-1200: Ted Benton and Ingolfur Bluehdorn
1200-1300: plenary discussion
1300-1400: lunch
1400-1500: short panel presentations of work on ‘aspects of realist approaches on the environment’
1500-1600: plenary and summing up
Participants are very welcome to submit papers for background reading and for exchange.

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Next up at the Cambridge Realist Workshop on Monday March 5th it is:

Party Time!!!

Not only will there be the usual (free) wine etc from 7:30pm onwards, but food as well.

The occasion is the Cambridge Launch of the Routledge book :

Contributions to Social Ontology

edited by Clive Lawson, John Latsis and Nuno Martins.

All
three of the editors will be present, as will be many of the
contributors……and as will be copies of the book for sale at
drastically reduced prices.

The event is intended to  be a fairly relaxed affair with wine and light food and plenty of time to chat and catch up.

The
academic part of the meeting, lead by Clive Lawson, will involve a
discussion  of the main themes and implications of the book -
especially as regards the relationship between Philosophy and Social
Science

The first chapter of the book is attached as background reading.

The
talk  itself is due to start at 8.00 (with refreshment etc from 7:30)
 but it is not intended that the ‘formal’ discussion will take up the
whole evening.

NB the programme for the term and directions to the seminar room in which we meet can be obtained from the following site:

http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/seminars/realist/workshop_programme.htm

Best regards

Tony Lawson

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Next up at the Cambridge Realist Workshop on Monday February 26 is
Margaret Schabas  who is head of the Philosophy Department at the
University British Columbia.  Margaret’s talk is entitled:

“The Natural Origins of Economics”

There is no paper but I append below the abstract of her recent book with
the same title.

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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:
http://criticalrealism.wikispaces.com/space/filelist

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

Next up at the first Cambridge Realist Workshop on Monday
February 19 is Alistair Dow   giving a talk entitled:

“History and Economics”

Does history matter to economics?  Why?  And what is the
staples approach? Come and find out on monday

I attach a  background paper by the speaker.

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