From ianverstegen at yahoo.com  Sat Aug  2 11:50:35 2008
From: ianverstegen at yahoo.com (Ian Verstegen)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 10:50:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Critical-Realism] American Critical Realism
Message-ID: <249162.67923.qm@web56104.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Hi Ruth,
When things settle down I just wanted you to have this Intro in your inbox.
Best of luck moving.
Ian



      

From Clive.Lawson at econ.cam.ac.uk  Sat Aug  2 12:50:52 2008
From: Clive.Lawson at econ.cam.ac.uk (Clive.Lawson at econ.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 18:50:52 +0000
Subject: [Critical-Realism]  American Critical Realism
Message-ID: <5D0AFCD4F25@econ.cam.ac.uk>

I am now away until 4th August and unable to read mail.
Apologies, but I'll get back to you as soon as I can after I return.

Clive


From ianverstegen at yahoo.com  Sat Aug  2 11:52:36 2008
From: ianverstegen at yahoo.com (Ian Verstegen)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 10:52:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Critical-Realism] American Critical Realism
Message-ID: <784953.85158.qm@web56101.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

My apologies. I was trying to send a personal email to Ruth (quite unsuccessfully!).

 Ian Verstegen
http://ianverstegen.googlepages.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Ian Verstegen <ianverstegen at yahoo.com>
To: Continuation of the Spoon Bhaskar List <critical-realism at lists.econ.utah.edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2008 1:50:35 PM
Subject: [Critical-Realism] American Critical Realism

Hi Ruth,
When things settle down I just wanted you to have this Intro in your inbox.
Best of luck moving.
Ian


      

From shivahemmati at gmail.com  Sat Aug  9 14:04:26 2008
From: shivahemmati at gmail.com (shiva hemmati)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 13:04:26 -0700
Subject: [Critical-Realism] question
Message-ID: <adf9704b0808091304h6407366dh5fea26697d89da20@mail.gmail.com>

Hello
I,m a new member . I joined your group inorder to know what are the
critiques of critical realism of social constructivism .

-- 
best wishes
Shiva Hemati

From wendy.olsen at manchester.ac.uk  Sat Aug  9 15:35:52 2008
From: wendy.olsen at manchester.ac.uk (Wendy Olsen)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 22:35:52 +0100
Subject: [Critical-Realism] question
In-Reply-To: <adf9704b0808091304h6407366dh5fea26697d89da20@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20080809223552562.00000003272@Workpcwo>

Hello

One of the important points was made by Bhaskar in his 1987 book, The Possibility of Naturalism.

He argued that epiphenomena exist when there is evidnece but it is being interpreted in ways that are misleading about the reality.

Bhaskar hints in this theme that social construcivists often make the same error that positivists were making, and promoting - of using evidence too naively.

I would recommend this book "PON", which has been republished in a very slightly revised edition, I think 1998, even for you it's imperfect because its traetment of social constructivism is only tangential to th emain themes attacking positivism and determnist marxism.  I found it energising and I especially liked the points about epiphenomena.


From agent.redstone at yahoo.com  Sat Aug  9 15:41:39 2008
From: agent.redstone at yahoo.com (Fred Zaman)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 14:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Critical-Realism] =?iso-8859-1?q?An_Expos=E9_of_=22Strict_Determ?=
	=?iso-8859-1?q?inism=22?=
In-Reply-To: <56897.77779.qm@web63607.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <334559.46961.qm@web63606.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

?
The work-in-progress below is a provocative--undoubtedly to 
many even outrageous--interpretation of what energy is 
ontologically. By virtue of this interpretation, however, 
it becomes possible to establish a nouveau foundation in 
physical theory for a naturalist explanation of phenomena 
both natural and social. It provides an ontological 
foundation for an essential unity of method between the 
natural and social sciences. And thus it may be through the 
radical interpretation of energy thus formulated, in some 
10,000 words, that a successful critical-realist 
?underlaboring? of the sciences can be grounded.
?
?
An?Expos? of "Strict Determinism":
The Free Agent?s Physical Being
?
?
ABSTRACT. In the ?strict determinism? of physics, 
everything in the universe is reducible to energy and 
matter of various forms and types, along with the 
impersonal governing laws thereof; with matter simply 
representing a condensed form of energy. The same will be 
true of the alternative determinism of the present essay as 
well--everything is still reducible to energy and matter, 
and the same impersonal governing laws thereof; with matter 
related to energy in the same way. There is a fundamental 
difference, however: energy in the strict determinism of 
physics is completely governed by nature?s impersonal laws; 
while in this essay?s radical alternative, the governance 
of energy--including energy of every kind without 
qualification--is ?underdetermined? (incompletely 
determined) by nature?s impersonal laws. So that, in the 
alternative, energy is substantively nature?s generic ?free 
agent,? which although constrained in what it can 
accomplish because of nature?s impersonal laws, 
nevertheless employs these same laws as the de facto 
instruments of its agency, through which it (energy) as 
free agent carries out lawfully its underdetermined actions 
and activities. The underdeterminism of energy in this 
nouveau ontology of physical reality literally reduces 
everything causal to the free agency of energy, in whatever 
form. Free agency thus, in this alternative 
?metadeterministic universe,? becomes the common 
denominator of everything. The energy of the human body, in 
this cosmological alternative to strict determinism, 
although biophysically and physiologically constrained by 
nature?s laws, nevertheless is the in-principle, naturally-
underdetermined, causally-metadeterministic physical being 
of human free agency. The two diametrically opposed 
ontologies of the physical world to be compared in this 
essay, to give them distinctive names, are the here named, 
conventional ?Agent-Free Determinism? (AFD) vs. nouveau 
?Free-Agent Determinism? (FAD). These diametrically opposed 
ontologies, AFD and FAD, are equally consistent with the 
laws of nature thus far discovered; but their respective 
world views nevertheless are fundamentally incompatible. 
Both cannot be true. The question thus is, which one is 
humankind likely to accept as ?the real?? Will the world-
at-large accept AFD, in which one?s free agency is nothing 
more than a psychic mirage? Or will it reject AFD by 
affirming FAD, so that free agency, everyone?s perhaps 
including Deity?s, is recognized as a fundamental property 
of the physical universe?
?
---------------------------
Reductionism and determinism are decoupled in this essay at 
a fundamental level. Scientists tend to conflate the two, 
because the reductionist mode of explanation is facilitated 
by the idea of determinism, but determinism and 
reductionism nevertheless are logically distinct. This 
essay does not argue against reductionism, but rather 
approaches it from a novel standpoint: that considered with 
respect to energy of every possible type and description, 
nature in principle is energetically underdetermined. 
Everything in the physical universe is at bottom some 
manifestation of energy, including matter; but the energy 
thereof, in whatever form, is here considered in principle 
to be underdetermined by nature?s laws; thereby leaving 
room for an energetically-grounded ?free agency? in all 
things, the physics of which is nature?s strictly 
underdetermined ?Free-Agent Determinism (FAD), which this 
essay compares to the strictly determined ?Agent-Free 
Determinism? (AFD) of science currently. In this essay, the 
free agency of the scientist conducting experiments, thus 
grounded energetically, will be the essay?s focal point and 
exemplar. Natural science, deterministically grounded on 
AFD, considered from the standpoint of the social sciences, 
is ?ontologically incompetent? at present because it in 
principle rules out the possibility of free agency, which 
in the social sciences is fundamental.
?
Werner Heisenberg, one of the great physicists of the 
twentieth century, declared that ?Science no longer 
confronts nature as an objective observer but sees itself 
as an actor in this interplay between man and nature.? 
However, Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg--and presumably 
other physicists as well--see this statement as a ?dreadful 
example? of the ?philosophical wanderings? of well 
intentioned but nevertheless badly misguided scientists; 
meaning that the ?wanderings? of such should not be taken 
seriously, regardless of their stature in science. 
Nevertheless, in this essay we shall further explore 
Heisenberg?s thesis by showing how it may be that, even 
before the development of quantum physics, science has 
never confronted nature as an ?objective observer?; but 
rather always has been a ?subjective actor? in the 
interplay between man and nature. The issue addressed here, 
then, is the free agency of the scientist in subjectively 
formulating, setting up, conducting, and evaluating 
experiments; and how to objectively understand the 
subjective agency of the scientist thus voluntarily engaged 
in terms of nature?s laws.
?
The approach taken is to rethink the conventional ?Agent-
Free Determinism? (AFD) of physics, in which everything in 
the universe is reducible to energy and matter, and the 
governing laws thereof, with matter simply representing a 
condensed form of energy. The result is a ?Free-Agent 
Determinism? (FAD), in which everything also is reducible 
to energy and matter, and the governing laws thereof, with 
matter also representing a condensed form of energy. There 
nevertheless is a big difference between them, however; for 
energy in the AFD of conventional science is strictly (i.e. 
completely) governed by nature?s impersonal laws, while in 
FAD energy--including energy of every kind without 
restriction--is underdetermined by nature?s impersonal 
laws. So that energy is then substantively nature?s ?free 
agent,? which although constrained in what it can 
accomplish because of nature?s impersonal laws, 
nevertheless employs these same laws as the de facto 
instruments of its agency, instruments through which it 
(energy) as free agent thus carries out its naturally 
underdetermined actions and activities. It thus is in FAD 
that energy, lawfully constrained by nature?s laws in the 
human body, but nevertheless employing the same laws 
instrumentally in the exercise of agency, is the physical 
being of human free agency.
?
Scientists, as subjective actors confronting nature in 
experiment, are an exemplar of the physical being of free 
agency. Energy within the scientist?s body, animating the 
body through its free agency, although biophysically and 
physiologically constrained by nature?s laws, at the same 
time utilizes those same laws as the instruments of the 
scientist?s naturally given--and thus naturally limited--
free agency. Energy here is the physical being of human 
free agency. Viewing biological evolution in FAD?s terms, 
evolution is an ?ascent? rather than ?descent?; and homo 
sapiens is that species whose evolution upward marks the 
highest level of biological, social, and intellectual 
progress achieved thus far here on earth.
?
Nobel Laureate physicist Steven Weinberg, in his 
influential book ?Facing Up,? informs the world-at-large 
that it should face up to the fact that physics has shown 
unequivocally that nature?s laws are ?impersonal with no 
hint of a divine plan or any special status for human 
beings.? However, this essay clearly suggests that what, 
conversely, physicists themselves perhaps ought to ?face 
up? to is the possibility that Agent-Free Determinism, 
wherein humankind has no free agency whatever--no freedom 
to choose among alternatives that present themselves, is 
humanistically incompetent. Free-Agent Determinism is 
offered here as an alternative, so that physics then has a 
way in which it will be able to reverse course, 
ontologically speaking, and seek as its Holy Grail the 
scientific confirmation of human free agency; which hands 
down would be the physicists? greatest of all possible 
achievements.
?

?


      

From matonianuk at yahoo.co.uk  Sat Aug  9 19:26:04 2008
From: matonianuk at yahoo.co.uk (Karl Maton)
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:26:04 +1000
Subject: [Critical-Realism] question
In-Reply-To: <adf9704b0808091304h6407366dh5fea26697d89da20@mail.gmail.com>
References: <adf9704b0808091304h6407366dh5fea26697d89da20@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <489E43AC.9090608@yahoo.co.uk>

In which field of enquiry?

shiva hemmati wrote:

>Hello
>I,m a new member . I joined your group inorder to know what are the
>critiques of critical realism of social constructivism .
>
>  
>

-- 
With best wishes,

Karl

----

Dr Karl Maton
Department of Sociology & Social Policy
Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney

http://www.KarlMaton.com

President, Australasian Association for Critical Realism
Editorial Board, Journal of Critical Realism

'This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time'



From mh at jaspere7.demon.co.uk  Sun Aug 10 03:44:31 2008
From: mh at jaspere7.demon.co.uk (Mervyn Hartwig)
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:44:31 +0100
Subject: [Critical-Realism] question
In-Reply-To: <489E43AC.9090608@yahoo.co.uk>
Message-ID: <mailman.256.1218361475.2556.critical-realism@lists.econ.utah.edu>

For a brief general take see Diane Westerhuis, 'Social constructionism' in
M. Hartwig, ed., Dictionary of Critical Realism, 419-20.

Mervyn 

-----Original Message-----
From: critical-realism-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu
[mailto:critical-realism-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Karl
Maton
Sent: 10 August 2008 02:26
To: Continuation of the Spoon Bhaskar List
Subject: Re: [Critical-Realism] question

In which field of enquiry?

shiva hemmati wrote:

>Hello
>I,m a new member . I joined your group inorder to know what are the 
>critiques of critical realism of social constructivism .
>
>  
>

--
With best wishes,

Karl

----

Dr Karl Maton
Department of Sociology & Social Policy
Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney

http://www.KarlMaton.com

President, Australasian Association for Critical Realism Editorial Board,
Journal of Critical Realism

'This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time'


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From agent.redstone at yahoo.com  Sun Aug 10 08:43:25 2008
From: agent.redstone at yahoo.com (Fred Zaman)
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:43:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Critical-Realism] Energy: The Elemental Being of Free Agency?
In-Reply-To: <334559.46961.qm@web63606.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <764105.68218.qm@web63605.mail.re1.yahoo.com>



Energy: The Elemental Being of Free Agency?
?
The critical issue seemingly to be strictly avoided on this list, de 
facto as it seems to be for whatever reason, is that of physical 
determinism vs. free agency, which considers the ontological 
incompatibility of:
?
(1) The strict determinism of physical existence, whether at the 
classical or quantum levels of analysis, assumed by natural 
science, and
?
(2) The reality, conditions, and contingencies of that free agency, 
which being underdetermined by the laws of nature, is the implicit 
assumption and theoretical ground of social science.
?
However, is there any doubt that the determinism of free will 
effected through human agents, as this determinism is 
existentially realized in the living of life, is ultimately physical in 
character? How might the conflict of (1) and (2) be resolved? One? 
way to achieve this is to simply recognize that energy itself is the 
elemental substance and being of free agency. That is the ?energy? 
of natural systems, in principle for all forms thereof, in reality is 
underdetermined by nature?s impersonal laws; so that energy itself 
is then the elemental substance and determinant of free agency.
?
Why the obvious reticence to discuss this important issue? If 
discussion of this issue is banned from this list, perhaps in effect 
through fear of reprisal, then this list will never truly address the 
critical issues regarding ?agency? and ?structure,? raised by critical 
realist philosophy in ?The Possibility of Naturalism? and elsewhere. 
Resolving the fundamental conflict between nature?s physical 
determinism and human free agency will be key to ?The Possibility 
of Naturalism? touted by Roy Bhaskar?s critical realist philosophy; 
for only then can ?conclusions taken from reflections on the 
natural sciences be transposed to the context of social science,? 
thereby validating ?the essential comparability of the two domains? 
(PON, p.3).
?
Fred Zaman
?
?


--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Fred Zaman <agent.redstone at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Fred Zaman <agent.redstone at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Critical-Realism] An Expos? of "Strict Determinism"
To: "Continuation of the Spoon Bhaskar List" <critical-realism at lists.econ.utah.edu>
Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 3:41 PM

?
The work-in-progress below is a provocative--undoubtedly to 
many even outrageous--interpretation of what energy is 
ontologically. By virtue of this interpretation, however, 
it becomes possible to establish a nouveau foundation in 
physical theory for a naturalist explanation of phenomena 
both natural and social. It provides an ontological 
foundation for an essential unity of method between the 
natural and social sciences. And thus it may be through the 
radical interpretation of energy thus formulated, in some 
10,000 words, that a successful critical-realist 
?underlaboring? of the sciences can be grounded.
?
?
An?Expos? of "Strict Determinism":
The Free Agent?s Physical Being
?
?
ABSTRACT. In the ?strict determinism? of physics, 
everything in the universe is reducible to energy and 
matter of various forms and types, along with the 
impersonal governing laws thereof; with matter simply 
representing a condensed form of energy. The same will be 
true of the alternative determinism of the present essay as 
well--everything is still reducible to energy and matter, 
and the same impersonal governing laws thereof; with matter 
related to energy in the same way. There is a fundamental 
difference, however: energy in the strict determinism of 
physics is completely governed by nature?s impersonal laws; 
while in this essay?s radical alternative, the governance 
of energy--including energy of every kind without 
qualification--is ?underdetermined? (incompletely 
determined) by nature?s impersonal laws. So that, in the 
alternative, energy is substantively nature?s generic ?free 
agent,? which although constrained in what it can 
accomplish because of nature?s impersonal laws, 
nevertheless employs these same laws as the de facto 
instruments of its agency, through which it (energy) as 
free agent carries out lawfully its underdetermined actions 
and activities. The underdeterminism of energy in this 
nouveau ontology of physical reality literally reduces 
everything causal to the free agency of energy, in whatever 
form. Free agency thus, in this alternative 
?metadeterministic universe,? becomes the common 
denominator of everything. The energy of the human body, in 
this cosmological alternative to strict determinism, 
although biophysically and physiologically constrained by 
nature?s laws, nevertheless is the in-principle, naturally-
underdetermined, causally-metadeterministic physical being 
of human free agency. The two diametrically opposed 
ontologies of the physical world to be compared in this 
essay, to give them distinctive names, are the here named, 
conventional ?Agent-Free Determinism? (AFD) vs. nouveau 
?Free-Agent Determinism? (FAD). These diametrically opposed 
ontologies, AFD and FAD, are equally consistent with the 
laws of nature thus far discovered; but their respective 
world views nevertheless are fundamentally incompatible. 
Both cannot be true. The question thus is, which one is 
humankind likely to accept as ?the real?? Will the world-
at-large accept AFD, in which one?s free agency is nothing 
more than a psychic mirage? Or will it reject AFD by 
affirming FAD, so that free agency, everyone?s perhaps 
including Deity?s, is recognized as a fundamental property 
of the physical universe?
?
---------------------------
Reductionism and determinism are decoupled in this essay at 
a fundamental level. Scientists tend to conflate the two, 
because the reductionist mode of explanation is facilitated 
by the idea of determinism, but determinism and 
reductionism nevertheless are logically distinct. This 
essay does not argue against reductionism, but rather 
approaches it from a novel standpoint: that considered with 
respect to energy of every possible type and description, 
nature in principle is energetically underdetermined. 
Everything in the physical universe is at bottom some 
manifestation of energy, including matter; but the energy 
thereof, in whatever form, is here considered in principle 
to be underdetermined by nature?s laws; thereby leaving 
room for an energetically-grounded ?free agency? in all 
things, the physics of which is nature?s strictly 
underdetermined ?Free-Agent Determinism (FAD), which this 
essay compares to the strictly determined ?Agent-Free 
Determinism? (AFD) of science currently. In this essay, the 
free agency of the scientist conducting experiments, thus 
grounded energetically, will be the essay?s focal point and 
exemplar. Natural science, deterministically grounded on 
AFD, considered from the standpoint of the social sciences, 
is ?ontologically incompetent? at present because it in 
principle rules out the possibility of free agency, which 
in the social sciences is fundamental.
?
Werner Heisenberg, one of the great physicists of the 
twentieth century, declared that ?Science no longer 
confronts nature as an objective observer but sees itself 
as an actor in this interplay between man and nature.? 
However, Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg--and presumably 
other physicists as well--see this statement as a ?dreadful 
example? of the ?philosophical wanderings? of well 
intentioned but nevertheless badly misguided scientists; 
meaning that the ?wanderings? of such should not be taken 
seriously, regardless of their stature in science. 
Nevertheless, in this essay we shall further explore 
Heisenberg?s thesis by showing how it may be that, even 
before the development of quantum physics, science has 
never confronted nature as an ?objective observer?; but 
rather always has been a ?subjective actor? in the 
interplay between man and nature. The issue addressed here, 
then, is the free agency of the scientist in subjectively 
formulating, setting up, conducting, and evaluating 
experiments; and how to objectively understand the 
subjective agency of the scientist thus voluntarily engaged 
in terms of nature?s laws.
?
The approach taken is to rethink the conventional ?Agent-
Free Determinism? (AFD) of physics, in which everything in 
the universe is reducible to energy and matter, and the 
governing laws thereof, with matter simply representing a 
condensed form of energy. The result is a ?Free-Agent 
Determinism? (FAD), in which everything also is reducible 
to energy and matter, and the governing laws thereof, with 
matter also representing a condensed form of energy. There 
nevertheless is a big difference between them, however; for 
energy in the AFD of conventional science is strictly (i.e. 
completely) governed by nature?s impersonal laws, while in 
FAD energy--including energy of every kind without 
restriction--is underdetermined by nature?s impersonal 
laws. So that energy is then substantively nature?s ?free 
agent,? which although constrained in what it can 
accomplish because of nature?s impersonal laws, 
nevertheless employs these same laws as the de facto 
instruments of its agency, instruments through which it 
(energy) as free agent thus carries out its naturally 
underdetermined actions and activities. It thus is in FAD 
that energy, lawfully constrained by nature?s laws in the 
human body, but nevertheless employing the same laws 
instrumentally in the exercise of agency, is the physical 
being of human free agency.
?
Scientists, as subjective actors confronting nature in 
experiment, are an exemplar of the physical being of free 
agency. Energy within the scientist?s body, animating the 
body through its free agency, although biophysically and 
physiologically constrained by nature?s laws, at the same 
time utilizes those same laws as the instruments of the 
scientist?s naturally given--and thus naturally limited--
free agency. Energy here is the physical being of human 
free agency. Viewing biological evolution in FAD?s terms, 
evolution is an ?ascent? rather than ?descent?; and homo 
sapiens is that species whose evolution upward marks the 
highest level of biological, social, and intellectual 
progress achieved thus far here on earth.
?
Nobel Laureate physicist Steven Weinberg, in his 
influential book ?Facing Up,? informs the world-at-large 
that it should face up to the fact that physics has shown 
unequivocally that nature?s laws are ?impersonal with no 
hint of a divine plan or any special status for human 
beings.? However, this essay clearly suggests that what, 
conversely, physicists themselves perhaps ought to ?face 
up? to is the possibility that Agent-Free Determinism, 
wherein humankind has no free agency whatever--no freedom 
to choose among alternatives that present themselves, is 
humanistically incompetent. Free-Agent Determinism is 
offered here as an alternative, so that physics then has a 
way in which it will be able to reverse course, 
ontologically speaking, and seek as its Holy Grail the 
scientific confirmation of human free agency; which hands 
down would be the physicists? greatest of all possible 
achievements.
?

?


      
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From dogangoecmen at aol.com  Tue Aug 19 05:18:26 2008
From: dogangoecmen at aol.com (=?utf-8?Q?Do=C4=9Fan_G=C3=B6=C3=A7men?=)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:18:26 -0400
Subject: [Critical-Realism] =?utf-8?b?QmF5a3XFnzIvQmF5a3XFnyAoaXNzdWUgMik=?=
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De?erli Arkada?lar/Dear All/Liebe Freunde/







De?erli Arkada?lar,



Bayku? dergisinin ikinci say?s? ??kt?. Derginin dosya konusu Hegel. Size a?a??da i?indekileri g?nderiyorum ve g?rsel bir izlenim edinmeniz i?in ayr?ca kapak sayfas? ekte dosya olarak g?nderilmektedir. 







The secon issue of Bayku? (a Turkish journal of philosophy) has just appeared. Please find below the table of contents. To give you a visual inpressen there is a picutre of the cover. 







Liebe Freunde, 



die 2. Nummer der t?rkischen Philosophiezeitschrift "Bayku?" ist gerade rausgekommen. Unten findet sich eine n?here Angabe ?ber den Inhalt und im Anhang der Deckel, um Ihnen einen visualen Eindruck zu geben. 











??indekiler



Tabe of Content



Inhalt







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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:57:30 -0400
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De?erli Arkada?lar/Dear All/Liebe Freunde/









De?erli Arkada?lar,




Bayku? dergisinin ikinci say?s? ??kt?. Derginin dosya konusu Hegel. Size a?a??da i?indekileri g?nderiyorum ve g?rsel bir izlenim edinmeniz i?in ayr?ca kapak sayfas? ekte dosya olarak g?nderilmektedir. 









The secon issue of Bayku? (a Turkish journal of philosophy) has just appeared. Please find below the table of contents. To give you a visual inpressen there is a picutre of the cover. 









Liebe Freunde, 




die 2. Nummer der t?rkischen Philosophiezeitschrift "Bayku?" ist gerade rausgekommen. Unten findet sich eine n?here Angabe ?ber den Inhalt und im Anhang der Deckel, um Ihnen einen visualen Eindruck zu geben. 














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From lena.gunnarsson at oru.se  Wed Aug 20 08:31:53 2008
From: lena.gunnarsson at oru.se (Lena Gunnarsson)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:31:53 +0200
Subject: [Critical-Realism] Join the mailing list Critical Realism and
	Gender!
Message-ID: <48AC2AD9.1080707@oru.se>

Join the mailing list "Critical Realism and Gender"! The purpose of the 
list is:

1) to discuss gender relations using the concepts and methods of 
critical realism
2) to network and encourage fellow academics interested in using 
critical realism to understand gender
3) to discuss experiences of gender bias and sexism within the critical 
realist community

If you want to join, email me by replying this message!

Best
Lena


From Hans.Despain at nichols.edu  Wed Aug 20 08:44:15 2008
From: Hans.Despain at nichols.edu (Despain, Hans G)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:44:15 -0400
Subject: [Critical-Realism] Roy Bhaskar speaking tour USA
Message-ID: <CF5E68A7D4B2F7438DDD9199F67F54420D3AB52318@mb01.bison.nichols.edu>


Dear list members,

Roy Bhaskar will be making a speaking tour to the USA in September 2008.  There has also been great interest in an additional speaking tour by Roy in the USA, in spring (April) and/or fall (September) 2009.

We are currently attempting to identify and collect departments and institutions which would be interested in having Roy Bhaskar speak.  He could speak on Critical Realism; Dialectical Critical Realism; The Philosophy of meta-Reality; Applied Critical Realism and Interdisciplinarity; Modernity and the Network Society; Critical Realism and Education; meta-Reality, the Gandhian Philosophy of Non-violence, and Peace; Hegel, Marx and the Fate of Actually Existing Socialism; Concrete Utopianism and Human Emancipation; Metatheory and Methodology of the Social Sciences (including beyond social constructionism and poststructuralism); and the Critique of Richard Rorty and Postmodernism; or any of these related to more specific themes and topics.

In August 2008, Routledge has republished A Realist Theory of Science (2008) and Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom (2008) and a new edition of Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation will be published in December 2008, together with two new books by Roy Bhaskar, namely, The Formation of Critical Realism (with Mervyn Hartwig) and Interdisciplinarity and Health (with Berth Danermark). This should generate great interest in Roy Bhaskar's ideas and critical realism more generally.

If there is interest at your institution to have Roy Bhaskar speak, please contact me (please reply to my email, not the list).  I would also be happy to make contact with your institution's liaison officer or contact person.

Thanks,
Hans

Hans G. Despain
hans.despain at nichols.edu
508-213-2165 (USA)

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From mh at jaspere7.demon.co.uk  Wed Aug 20 15:14:39 2008
From: mh at jaspere7.demon.co.uk (Mervyn Hartwig)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:14:39 +0100
Subject: [Critical-Realism] Join the mailing list Critical Realism
	andGender!
In-Reply-To: <48AC2AD9.1080707@oru.se>
Message-ID: <mailman.309.1219266898.2556.critical-realism@lists.econ.utah.edu>

Hi Lena

Congratulations on this initiative.

I think it would be really useful if topical CR lists such as the one you're
starting up and  regional ones posted a brief account here once or twice a
year of what has transpired on their lists, or alternatively on the CR wiki
(or both). Just a thought.

All the best,

Mervyn


 

-----Original Message-----
From: critical-realism-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu
[mailto:critical-realism-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Lena
Gunnarsson
Sent: 20 August 2008 15:32
To: critical-realism at lists.econ.utah.edu
Subject: [Critical-Realism] Join the mailing list Critical Realism
andGender!

Join the mailing list "Critical Realism and Gender"! The purpose of the list
is:

1) to discuss gender relations using the concepts and methods of critical
realism
2) to network and encourage fellow academics interested in using critical
realism to understand gender
3) to discuss experiences of gender bias and sexism within the critical
realist community

If you want to join, email me by replying this message!

Best
Lena

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From gbrown at uow.edu.au  Wed Aug 20 19:26:53 2008
From: gbrown at uow.edu.au (Gordon Brown)
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:26:53 +1000
Subject: [Critical-Realism] Join the mailing list Critical Realism and
	Gender!
In-Reply-To: <48AC2AD9.1080707@oru.se>
References: <48AC2AD9.1080707@oru.se>
Message-ID: <F83DA70F-BD43-408B-8105-9F71EC654B9D@uow.edu.au>

Hi Lena,

I would like to be part of this mailing list. Thanks for pursuing this.

Regards,

Gordon Brown

On Aug 21, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Lena Gunnarsson wrote:

> Join the mailing list "Critical Realism and Gender"! The purpose of  
> the
> list is:
>
> 1) to discuss gender relations using the concepts and methods of
> critical realism
> 2) to network and encourage fellow academics interested in using
> critical realism to understand gender
> 3) to discuss experiences of gender bias and sexism within the  
> critical
> realist community
>
> If you want to join, email me by replying this message!
>
> Best
> Lena
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Critical-Realism at lists.econ.utah.edu
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From wendy.olsen at manchester.ac.uk  Thu Aug 21 02:22:41 2008
From: wendy.olsen at manchester.ac.uk (Wendy Olsen)
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:22:41 +0100
Subject: [Critical-Realism] Join the mailing list Critical Realism
 andGender!
In-Reply-To: <48AC2AD9.1080707@oru.se>
Message-ID: <20080821092241937.00000005320@Workpcwo>

yes please count me in Lena

Wendy 


Wendy Olsen
Senior Lecturer in Socio-Economic Research
Cathie Marsh Centre for Census & Survey Research
and Inst. for Development Policy and Management
Univ. of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
tel 0044-161-275-3043
web www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/wo.htm
See also 
www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/socialchange

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Sent: 20 August 2008 15:32
To: critical-realism at lists.econ.utah.edu
Subject: [Critical-Realism] Join the mailing list Critical Realism andGender!

Join the mailing list "Critical Realism and Gender"! The purpose of the list is:

1) to discuss gender relations using the concepts and methods of critical realism
2) to network and encourage fellow academics interested in using critical realism to understand gender
3) to discuss experiences of gender bias and sexism within the critical realist community

If you want to join, email me by replying this message!

Best
Lena

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From agent.redstone at yahoo.com  Sun Aug 24 12:48:25 2008
From: agent.redstone at yahoo.com (Fred Zaman)
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:48:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Critical-Realism] =?utf-8?q?An_=E2=80=98Emancipatory_Critique?=
 =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99_of_Natural_Science?=
In-Reply-To: <764105.68218.qm@web63605.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <185789.25907.qm@web63608.mail.re1.yahoo.com>


If anyone on the CR list is interested, below is one way to begin a very 
basic critical-realist ?underlaboring of science.?
Fred
----------------
On ?Absenting the Absence? of Free Will:
An ?Emancipatory Critique? of Natural Science


ABSTRACT. This essay is a critical-realist ?underlaboring? of natural science directed 
toward developing an ?emancipatory movement? that will eliminate the current hegemony 
of reductionism in science, in both the natural and social sciences. It suggests basic 
principles for an ?emancipatory praxis? whose ultimate goal is to further develop the 
critical-realist ?pulse of freedom? in society, through a reformation of science that 
?absents the absence? of free will in science currently; i.e. absent the current absence of 
the freedom in science to recognize that free will does exist in the universe, indeed 
throughout the universe. The theoretical basis of this effort is ?The Free Will Theorem? of 
mathematicians John Conway and Simon Kochen, the recent proof of which has 
established two mutually exclusive physical possibilities: (1) free will is nonexistent and 
thus possessed by absolutely no one in the universe, or (2) free will is universal and 
possessed to some degree by everyone and everything, even including elementary 
particles. This exceedingly important theorem, confirmed by Nobel laureate Gerard?t 
Hooft, justifies in principle an ?Emancipatory Critique of Natural Science? resulting in the 
physical grounding of free will, which then can emancipate science from the existing 
hegemony of (1). This essay facilitates this emancipatory movement conceptually on the 
basis that energy in principle is ?underdetermined? (incompletely determined) by the laws 
of nature in their totality including those specified by any future Theory of Everything, so 
that energy itself is then, par excellence, the natural substance and essence of free will. 
On this basis it becomes possible to harmonize the laws of nature currently known, but 
causally reinterpreted as the de facto instruments of energy?s intrinsic free will, with a 
universe in which free will to some degree is possessed by everyone and everything. The 
Emancipatory Critique thus formulated potentially can theoretically unify the natural and 
social sciences. Stress is placed on the importance of this unification for the emancipation 
of both science and the rational society from the current hegemony of ?reductionist 
science.?
?


      

From Clive.Lawson at econ.cam.ac.uk  Sun Aug 24 13:48:48 2008
From: Clive.Lawson at econ.cam.ac.uk (Clive.Lawson at econ.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:48:48 +0000
Subject: [Critical-Realism] =?utf-8?q?_An_=E2=80=98Emancipatory_Critique?=
	=?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99_of_Natural_Science?=
Message-ID: <7E1A7C45AF9@econ.cam.ac.uk>

I am now away until 2nd September and unable to read mail.
Apologies, but I'll get back to you as soon as I can after I return.

Clive


From MOODEY001 at gannon.edu  Sun Aug 24 17:57:25 2008
From: MOODEY001 at gannon.edu (Moodey, Richard W)
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:57:25 -0400
Subject: [Critical-Realism] An 'Emancipatory Critique' of Natural Science
References: <185789.25907.qm@web63608.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1B45AE651C808D458990F881B2B696430DA5B1@exchange.gannon.edu>

Hi Fred,

Two questions:

1.  Is it possible for any one of us to give any meaning to the words "free will" 
without drawing upon his or her personal experiences of making choices?
2.  Can there be free will without cognition?  It would seem to me that any entity 
that is free would have to know about alternatives as a precondition of choosing.

Best regards,

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: critical-realism-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu on behalf of Fred Zaman
Sent: Sun 8/24/2008 2:48 PM
To: Continuation of the Spoon Bhaskar List
Subject: [Critical-Realism] An 'Emancipatory Critique' of Natural Science
 

If anyone on the CR list is interested, below is one way to begin a very 
basic critical-realist 'underlaboring of science.'
Fred
----------------
On 'Absenting the Absence' of Free Will:
An 'Emancipatory Critique' of Natural Science


ABSTRACT. This essay is a critical-realist 'underlaboring' of natural science directed 
toward developing an 'emancipatory movement' that will eliminate the current hegemony 
of reductionism in science, in both the natural and social sciences. It suggests basic 
principles for an 'emancipatory praxis' whose ultimate goal is to further develop the 
critical-realist 'pulse of freedom' in society, through a reformation of science that 
'absents the absence' of free will in science currently; i.e. absent the current absence of 
the freedom in science to recognize that free will does exist in the universe, indeed 
throughout the universe. The theoretical basis of this effort is "The Free Will Theorem" of 
mathematicians John Conway and Simon Kochen, the recent proof of which has 
established two mutually exclusive physical possibilities: (1) free will is nonexistent and 
thus possessed by absolutely no one in the universe, or (2) free will is universal and 
possessed to some degree by everyone and everything, even including elementary 
particles. This exceedingly important theorem, confirmed by Nobel laureate Gerard?t 
Hooft, justifies in principle an "Emancipatory Critique of Natural Science" resulting in the 
physical grounding of free will, which then can emancipate science from the existing 
hegemony of (1). This essay facilitates this emancipatory movement conceptually on the 
basis that energy in principle is 'underdetermined' (incompletely determined) by the laws 
of nature in their totality including those specified by any future Theory of Everything, so 
that energy itself is then, par excellence, the natural substance and essence of free will. 
On this basis it becomes possible to harmonize the laws of nature currently known, but 
causally reinterpreted as the de facto instruments of energy's intrinsic free will, with a 
universe in which free will to some degree is possessed by everyone and everything. The 
Emancipatory Critique thus formulated potentially can theoretically unify the natural and 
social sciences. Stress is placed on the importance of this unification for the emancipation 
of both science and the rational society from the current hegemony of "reductionist 
science."
?


      
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From m.mcdonald.10 at scu.edu.au  Wed Aug 27 02:46:03 2008
From: m.mcdonald.10 at scu.edu.au (m.mcdonald.10 at scu.edu.au)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:46:03 +1000
Subject: [Critical-Realism] invitation to join the meta-Reality discussion
	group
Message-ID: <fa1ef0b344d9.48b5a0eb@scu.edu.au>

Hello!

I am just writing to let you know that I have been very inspired 
by the wonderful discussions about the philosophy of meta-
Reality that I enjoyed whilst I was in London last month. I was 
so inspired that I was compelled to explore the possibilities of 
continuing these discussions in an on-line forum. 

I am pleased to announce that there is now an on-line forum 
available for anyone interested in sharing, exploring, 
developing, extending and playing around with their ideas about 
meta-Reality. I warmly invite you to join this discussion group.

The purpose of the meta-Reality discussion group is to provide 
an international on-line forum for people who are interested in 
discussing Roy Bhaskar's philosophy of meta-Reality. It is 
intended to be a relaxed forum in which we can all share and 
develop our ideas and understandings of the philosophy of meta-
Reality, and also expand our experience of meta-Reality itself. 

If you want to join the group, please go to: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meta-Reality - you will have to 
click on the ?Join This Group!? button to become a member. 

 
If you want to send an email to all the members of the meta-
Reality discussion group, you can do this by sending an email 
to: meta-Reality at yahoogroups.com

 
I look forward to future discussions with you.


Warm wishes, 
Melanie 

From Clive.Lawson at econ.cam.ac.uk  Wed Aug 27 03:46:25 2008
From: Clive.Lawson at econ.cam.ac.uk (Clive.Lawson at econ.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 9:46:25 +0000
Subject: [Critical-Realism] invitation to join the meta-Reality
	discussion	group
Message-ID: <81F9DBB2E19@econ.cam.ac.uk>

I am now away until 2nd September and unable to read mail.
Apologies, but I'll get back to you as soon as I can after I return.

Clive