Preface, Contributors and Contributions, List of Figures, HOW TO USE THIS BOOK, Cross References, References and Quotations, Citation of Works by Bhaskar, Citation of Works by Other Authors, General Abbreviations, Symbols, Abbreviations Used by Critical Realist Authors, Critical realism, The causal-axiological chain (MELD[ARA] schema), Domains, The hermeneutical circles, Dialectic, Epistemological dialectic, General, DICTIONARY ENTRIES, Works by Roy Bhaskar, Other Works Referred to in the Text
Contributors and Contributions:
Alexander, David (University of Technology, NSW), brain
Archer, Margaret S. (University of Warwick) morphogenesis/morphostasis
Blom, Björn (Umeå University), social work (with Stefan Morén)
Bowring, Bill (London Metropolitan University), legal studies
Brannan, Matthew (Keele University), ethnography
Brereton, Derek P. (University of Michigan), anthropology; evolution of society; evolutionary psychology
Brown, Andrew (University of Leeds) economics
Byrne, David (Durham University) chaos/complexity theory (with David L. Harvey)
Calder, Gideon (University of Wales, Cardiff), ethics; philosophical anthropology; sociology of the body
Carter, Bob (University of Warwick), race, racism, ethnicity
Clark, Alexander M. (University of Alberta), nursing
Clarke, Graham (University of Essex), psychoanalysis
Cruickshank, Justin (University of Birmingham), essentialism
Dean, Kathryn (University of London), medium theory; needs; reason
Downward, Paul (Loughborough University), method, quantitative
D’Souza, Radha (University of Waikato), colonialism, neo-colonialism, post-colonialism; emancipatory movements
Ekström, Mats (Örebro University) media studies
Engholm, Pär (Örebro University), irrealism; pragmatism; TMSA; totality
Fairclough, Norman (University of Lancaster), discourse analysis
Faulkner, Philip (University of Cambridge), closure, demi-reg, PRVS model
Ferber, Michael P. (West Virginia University), geography of religion
Steve Fleetwood (University of Lancaster), industrial relations; labour markets
Groff, Ruth (Williams College), truth
Harvey, David L. (University of Illinois), chaos/complexity theory (with David Byrne)
Hostettler, Nick (University of London), sociology of knowledge
Høyer, Karl Georg (Roskilde University), ecology (with Petter Næss)
Jessop, Bob (University of Lancaster), political science; social form; space-time; strategic-relational approach
Jones, Peter, (Sheffield Hallam University), linguistics
Joseph, Jonathan (University of Kent), hegemony; political theory; structuralism, post-structuralism
Kowalczyk, Ruth (University of Lancaster), management science
Lacey, Hugh (Swarthmore College/Universidade de São Paulo) explanatory critique; philosophy of religion (with Douglas V. Porpora)
Lawson, Clive (University of Cambridge), technology
Lawson, Julie (University of Amsterdam), urban studies
Maton, Karl (University of Wollongong), studies of education (with Brad Shipway)
Mingers, John (University of Kent), autopoiesis; system
Minnerup, Günter (University of New South Wales), historiography
Morén, Stefan (Umeå University) social work (with Björn Blom)
Morgan, Jamie (University of Helsinki), analytical problematic; emergence; empiricism; globalisation; idealism; identity theory; materialism; mind; political economy (with Heikki Patomäki); power
Morrow, Ross (University of Technology, NSW), social theory; sociology; sociology of sexuality
Næss, Petter (Aalborg University) ecology (with Karl Georg Høyer); urban and regional planning
Nellhaus, Tobin (Yale University), aesthetics; cognitive science; culture, cultural analysis; signs, semiology, semiotic
New, Caroline (University of Bath Spa), feminist theory; gender
Nielsen, Peter (Roskilde University), capitalism; critical theory; fetishism; Marxism; rational choice theory
Norrie, Alan (University of London), dialectical critical realism
Norris, Christopher (University of Wales, Cardiff), ontology, transcendental realism
Olsen, Wendy (University of Manchester), poverty
Parker, Ian (Manchester Metropolitan University), psychology
Parker, Jenneth (London South Bank University), sustainability
Patomäki, Heikki (University of Helsinki), futures studies; international relations; neoliberalism; political economy (with Jamie Morgan)
Pinkstone, Brian (University of Western Sydney) economic history; tendency (with Mervyn Hartwig)
Porpora, Douglas V. (Drexel University), philosophy of religion (with Hugh Lacey); social structure
Potter, Garry (Wilfrid Laurier University), knowledge theory of; philosophy of social science
Pratten, Stephen B. (University of London), contrast explanation; explanation
Psillos, Stathis (University of Athens), causal law; inference; Nicod’s criterion; philosophy of science; realism
Ratcliffe, Peter (University of Warwick) migration studies
Roberts, John M. (Brunel University), postmodernism
Scambler, Graham (University of London), disability; sociology of health and medicine
Shield, Richard (University of Leeds), management and organisation studies; method, methodology
Shipway, Brad (Southern Cross University), studies of education (with Karl Maton)
Tew, Philip (Brunel University), literary theory
Westerhuis, Diane (James Cook University), social constructionism
Williams, Malcolm (University of Plymouth), probability
Biography
Mervyn Hartwig is a foundation member of the International Association for Critical Realism and founding editor of Journal of Critical Realism. He taught history and philosophy of the social sciences for many years in Sydney. He now lives in London.
