General Editor
Mervyn Hartwig

Review Editor
Jamie Morgan
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The Journal of Critical Realism (JCR) is the journal of the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR), established in 1997 to foster the discussion, propagation and the development of critical realist approaches to understanding and changing the world. It provides a forum for scholars wishing to promote realist emancipatory philosophy, social theory and science on an interdisciplinary and international basis, and for those who wish to engage with such an approach. Material should, as a rule, be directed at an audience across different disciplines with a shared interest in critical realism rather than a specialist disciplinary audience.

The journal publishes articles, review essays, review symposia, book reviews, debates and postgraduate interventions that relate in some significant way to critical realist approaches to understanding and changing the world.

For more information about IACR please go to International Association for Critical Realism

Call for papers

Please see the announcements at the bottom of this page for recent calls for papers for two special issues. JCR aims to publish scholarly articles on all aspects of critical realism as a multidisciplinary and emancipatory/ transformative movement, and to encourage debate between critical realist and other approaches. We are currently particularly interested in empirically based studies, papers exploring the applicability of critical realism in new areas, and in engagement with critical realism from the direction of mainline realism, social constructionism, hermeneutics, postmodernism, feminist theory, Hegelianism and Marxism.

Recent Articles

Petter Næss, Unsustainable Growth, Unsustainable Capitalism Vol. 5 (2)

David Wilson and William Dixon, ‘Das Adam Smith Problem’: A Critical Realist Perspective Vol. 5 (2)

Heikki Patomäki, Realist Ontology for Futures StudiesVol. 5 (1)

Hidenori Suzuki, Is There Something Money Can’t Buy? In Defence of the Ontology of a Market Boundary Vol. 4 (2)

Tone Skinningsrud, Realist Social Theorising and the Emergence of State Educational Systems Vol. 4 (2)

Lynn Savery, Women’s Human Rights and Changing State Practices: A Critical Realist Approach Vol. 4 (1)

Bob Jessop, The Gender Selectivities of the State: A Critical Realist Analysis Vol. 3 (2)

Tim Rogers, The Doing of a Depth-Investigation: Implications for the Emancipatory Aims of Critical Naturalism Vol. 3 (2)

Derek P. Brereton, Preface for a Critical Realist Ethnology, Part I: The Schism and a Realist Restorative; Part II: Some Principles Applied Vol. 3 (1) & 3 (2)

Tobin Nellhaus, From embodiment to agency: cognitive science, critical realism, and communication frameworks Vol. 3 (1)

Indexing and Abstracting
The Philosophers Index
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

Publication: February, June, October
ISSN: 1476-7430 (print)
ISSN: 1572-5138 (online)

Editorial Address
Mervyn Hartwig
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