BHA: Journal of Critical Realism: reviewing etc

[Mervyn Hartwig <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

IACR has recently elected an editorial committee to assist in the 
production of Journal of Critical Realism. I'm putting together, for use 
of the editorial team, a document called *JCR Peer Review and Reviewing 
etc Network*. The idea is to provide a basic databank of potential peer 
reviewers, reviewers and contributors. This will of course be much 
amended over time.

If you're interested in peer reviewing, reviewing or contributing to or 
for JCR, I would very much appreciate it if you would send me off-list a 
brief note about yourself--main areas of interest, areas in which you'd 
be prepared to review and possibly contribute, and contact details (if 
of course you haven't already done this in one way or another).  This 
information will be kept confidential to the JCR editorial committee. 
Please note that you don't have to be a full-blooded critical realist to 
qualify: JCR very much encourages engagement with and from other 
approaches.

The recent IACR Annual General Meeting voted to accept an offer from 
Brill Academic Publishers to publish, promote and distribute JCR from 
2004. This should give JCR a strong boost, especially in institutional 
subscriptions. I'm confident that it will put the journal on a firm 
material foundation with an assured future.

With best wishes,
--
Mervyn Hartwig
Editor, Journal of Critical Realism (ISSN 1476-7430)
13 Spenser Road
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mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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NOW AVAILABLE:

*JOURNAL OF CRITICAL REALISM* Vol 1 No 2 May 2003

Journal of Critical Realism began life in 1998 as the newsletter of the International Association for Critical Realism
(IACR) entitled Alethia. IACR was established in 1997 to foster the discussion, propagation and development of
critical realist approaches to understanding and changing the world. Alethia's main focus from the outset was the
publication of scholarly articles. In 2001 Alethia gave way to Journal of Critical Realism (incorporating Alethia)
(unrefereed). From November 2002 Journal of Critical Realism has been peer reviewed, appearing in a new format
and series.

Critical realist philosophy and social theory elaborate a general conceptual schema or meta-theory, via the
immanent critique of other traditions and its own previous phases and the transcendental analysis of scientific and
other human practices, for emancipatory science, i.e. science that makes genuine discoveries and can therefore
help to promote human flourishing. It combines and reconciles epistemic relativism (all knowledge is socially
produced, or transitive, and fallible) with judgemental rationalism (there are rational criteria for preferring one
judgement or theory to another, genuine knowledge of the causally and/or existentially intransitive objects of science
is possible) and ontological depth (the world is intransitive or irreducible to epistemology, transfactual or open, and
stratified and emergent, hence differentiated and changing).

On such a view of the world, there is more to what is than what is known, more to laws of nature than regular
succession, more to society than human agents and more to human agents than effects of society; and objective
explanations need not be practically neutral.

Itself plural, open, and developing, critical realism is compatible with, and promotes, a wide range of emancipatory
research programmes (which incorporate additional premises), and explicitly espouses methodological pluralism;
every science is a science only insofar as it deploys a methodology appropriate to the specificities of its object.
Critical realism is accordingly also plural in its political affinities within a broad emancipatory remit. Emancipation
refers to the historical process of freedom whereby people remove constraints on the fulfilment of their needs and
seek to create the positive social conditions for the full flourishing of their potential as a species. The theory of
explanatory critiques and the dialectics of freedom (which are substantive as well as formal) suggest broadly how a
unity of theory and political practice might be effected by movements for change, with realist science and social
science playing an important role; while the recent work of a leading critical realist philosopher, Roy Bhaskar,
elaborates a theory 'within the bounds of secularism, consistent with all faiths and no faith', of the spiritual
presuppositions of emancipatory projects.

Critical realism is, indeed, arguably above all a philosophy and social theory of emancipation which seeks to grasp
the historical process of freedom in thought and promote it in practice. It is coming to prominence within the
academy simultaneously with the rise of a global movement for human emancipation which shares many of its
insights. Both are premised on the understanding that a new human future of social justice, peace, care, solidarity,
and ecological sustainability is possible and necessary; without such a future, the future as such is in jeopardy.

Journal of Critical Realism 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. Critical realism's intellectual power and vitality, together with the sheer range of its concerns across the
gamut of human endeavour, will ensure that this leads to no inward looking provincialism. We envisage that much
critical realist scholarship and research will continue to be published elsewhere and will actively promote
exchanges, friendly as well as polemical, with other approaches.

Editorial policy

We will endeavour to promote, specifically:

"       Lively and original research and scholarship within the remit of the aims of the IACR
"       A genuine internationalism, in terms of subject matter, domicile of contributors, recommended pricing
policy, and assistance to contributors with English language expression where necessary
"       Gender balance among contributors, and a flourishing younger generation of scholars
"       An authentic pluralism, both methodologically and in terms of political affinity
"       Interdisciplinarity of approach in keeping with the stratification, relationality and processuality of the world
"       Human emancipation-an accelerating and mutually enriching dialectic between critical realist philosophy,
scientific research pursued within a range of research programmes (including the elaboration of concrete utopias),
and movements for liberation


Editor: Mervyn Hartwig

Editorial Committee: Kathryn Dean, Karl Maton, Jamie Morgan, Jenneth Parker

Editorial Advisory Board
Margaret Archer (Warwick) Ted Benton (Essex), Roy Bhaskar (London) Bill Bowring (London) Thomas Brante
(Ãrebro) Derek Brereton (Michigan) Gideon Calder (Cardiff) Bob Carter (Warwick) Andrew Collier (Southampton)
Sean Creaven (Edinburgh) James Daly (Belfast) Berth Danermark (Ãrebro) Kathryn Dean (London) Hans Despain
(Wesleyan), Peter Dickens (Cambridge, UK) Howard Engelskirchen (WSU) PÃr Engholm (Uppsala) Hans Ehrbar
(Utah) Norman Fairclough (Lancaster) Marshall Feldman (URI), Steve Fleetwood (Lancaster) Martha Gimenez
(Colorado) Ruth Groff (York, Ca) Andrew Hagen (Rutgers) Cynthia Lins Hamlin (City, Br & Toronto) Gil-Soo Han
(Monash) Nick Hostettler (London) Bob Jessop (Lancaster) Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Sussex) Jonathan Joseph
(London) Anne Junor (UNSW, Au) Mansoor Kazi (Huddersfield) Ruth Kowalzyck (Lancaster) Hugh Lacey (Drexel)
Derek Layder (Leicester) Julie Lawson (Amsterdam) Tony Lawson (Cambridge) Paul Lewis (Cambridge) Chris
Lloyd (New England, Au) Terrence Lo (Hong Kong) Josà LÃpez (Nottingham) Gary MacLennan (QUT, Au) Karl
Maton (Leicester) Andrew Mearman (New York) John Mingers (Warwick) Maria Mitropoulos (QUT) Jamie Morgan
(Manchester) Ross Morrow (Newcastle, Aus) Viren Viren Murthy (Chicago) Tobin Nellhaus (Yale) Peter Nielsen
(Roskilde, Dk), Caroline New (Bath Spa) Allan Norrie (London) Peter Nielsen (Roskilde, Dk) Chris Norris (Cardiff)
Wendy Olsen (Bradford) William Outhwaite (Sussex)  Heikki PatomÃki (Nottingham Trent/ Helsinki) Ray Pawson
(Leeds), Ian Parker (Manchester) Jenneth Parker (Southbank) Brian Pinkstone (Western Sydney) Steve Pratten
(London) Doug Porpora (Drexel) Garry Potter (Wilfrid Laurier, Ca) Jonathan Pratschke (Trinity, Dublin/ Salerno)
Hans Puehretmayer (Vienna) Amit Ron (Minnesota) Andrew Sayer (Lancaster) Graham Scambler (London) Rachel
Sharp (London) Tone Skinningsrud (Norway) Mark Smith (Open, UK) Manindra Thakur (Delhi) Subramaniyam
Venkatraman (Chennai, Ind) Sean Vertigan (London) Ian Verstegen (Philadelphia) Colin Wight (Aberystwyth)

IACR Secretariat and Council
Berth Danermark (President), Steve Fleetwood (General Secretary), Ruth Kowalzyck (Treasurer), Mervyn Hartwig
(Journal Editor), Cynthia Lins Hamlin (City, Br & Toronto), Julie Lawson (Amsterdam), Tony Lawson (Cambridge),
Caroline New (Bath Spa), Peter Nielsen (Roskilde), Wendy Olsen (Bradford), Heikki PatomÃki (Helsinki), Brian
Pinkstone (Western Sydney), Doug Porpora (Drexel), Andrew Sayer (Lancaster), Tone Skinningsrud (Norway),
Subramaniyam Venkatraman (Chennai, Ind).

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The Current Issue

Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 2003)

Articles

Morgan, Jamie. 'The Global Power of Orthodox Economics'. Journal of Critical Realism 1.2 (May 2003): 7-34.

This paper connects the methodological critique of orthodox economics to the consequences of models, methods
and theories in social reality. It uses the East Asian financial crisis of 1997 and the subsequent experiences of Ravi
Kanbur and Joseph Stiglitz at the World Bank to place orthodox economics as one element in the causal
complexity of economy as an open system. A broader understanding of economic knowledge with sociology of
knowledge and political economy dynamics is explored, and as part of the analysis the issue of the role of
mathematics in heterodox economics is also discussed.

Jones, Branwen Gruffydd. '"The Massive Presence of the Past and the Outside": Presences, Absences and
Possibilities for Emancipation in the Current Global Condition'. Journal of Critical Realism 1.2 (May 2003): 35-60.

The problem of emancipation has always been a theme of Bhaskar's work, but is foregrounded in the recent
dialectical turn of critical realism. Social life since the beginnings of critical realism has been characterized by ever
growing inequalities, globally and locally. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, world leaders reiterate their
promises to halve global poverty while simultaneously strengthening the hand of capital in the Third World. It is time
to realize the potential of Bhaskar's dialectical underlabouring in substantive analysis of possibilities for
emancipation. To this end, this article first outlines the components of dialectical critical realism which are central to
Bhaskar's dialectic of emancipation. It then examines the historical example of the emancipatory struggles of the
peoples of Mozambique to liberate themselves first from colonial rule and then from the conditions of poverty and
underdevelopment. Key concepts of dialectical critical realism are employed to illuminate the analysis, which
details ways in which the causal efficacy of 'the past and the outside' undermined the Mozambican struggle for
emancipation from poverty through socialist development. Reflection on this substantive example suggests that
some of Bhaskar's enthusiastic thought on the dialectic of emancipation should be tempered or qualified.

Norris, Christopher. 'Response-Dependence: What's in It for the Realist?'. Journal of Critical Realism 1.2 (May
2003): 61-88.

Response-dependence (RD) is an idea that derives chiefly from Locke's discussion of 'secondary qualities' such
as colour, taste and odour. These are distinguished from Lockean 'primary qualities'-objective attributes like shape
and size-by the fact that any standard of veridical perception or accurate judgement concerning them must
incorporate some reference to how they strike a normal (perceptually well equipped) respondent under certain,
likewise normalized, ambient conditions.

This argument has lately been extended to other topics of debate where it is thought to offer a promising alternative
to hard-line 'metaphysical' realism (or objectivism), on the one hand, and various kinds of anti-realist, constructivist,
emotivist, projectivist, or cultural-relativist approaches, on the other. Thus RD theorists have proposed its
application to subject-domains ranging all the way from philosophy of logic, mathematics, and the formal sciences
to ethics, sociology and political theory. In each case-so its protagonists claim-this approach holds out the prospect
of resolving such deadlocked philosophical disputes.

However, I argue, that prospect is illusory since when the RD 'quantified biconditional' is applied to areas of
discourse beyond the perceptual domain it either reduces to a trivial (tautologous) truth or else remains open to
various kinds of sceptical or anti-realist construal. My essay makes this case with particular reference to issues in
ethical theory and the philosophy of mathematics. Along the way it discusses the source of these problems in
Kantian epistemology and locates them in relation to John McDowell's revisionist reading of Kant, one that has
much in common with the RD approach. I also offer a brief survey of the various sceptical (e.g., Kripkean) and anti-
realist (Dummett-type) arguments that have prompted this line of thought, arguments whose force it is unable to
deflect for want of any adequate realist grounding.

Debate

Bhaskar, Roy, & Alex Callinicos. 'Marxism and Critical Realism: A Debate'. Journal of Critical Realism 1.2 (May
2003): 89-114.

Review Articles

Morgan, Jamie. 'What Is Meta-Reality? Alternative Interpretations of the Argument'. Journal of Critical Realism 1.2
(May 2003): 115-146.

Hostettler, Nick. 'Form and Substance in Capital: Theses on the Relation between Capital and Dialectic'. Journal of
Critical Realism 1.2 (May 2003): 147-173.

Rejoinder

PatomÃki, Heikki. 'After International Relations, after Capitalism: A Rejoinder to Branwen Gruffydd Jones'. Journal
of Critical Realism 1.2 (May 2003): 175-181.

Review

Jessop, Bob. 'Critical Realism and Hegemony: Hic Rhodus, Hic Saltus'. Journal of Critical Realism 1.2 (May 2003):
183-194.


Looking Ahead

Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 2 No. 1 (November 2003)
will include:

Clarke, Graham. Fairbairn and Macmurray: psychoanalytic studies and critical realism

Creaven, Sean. Marx and Bhaskar on the dialectics of freedom

Engelskirchen, Howard. Thinking particulars: Adorno and scientific realism

Morgan, Jamie. *Empire* inhuman? The social ontology of global theory


Back Issues

Alethia Volume 1 Number 1 (April 1998)
Alethia Volume 1 Number 2 (September 1998)
Alethia Volume 2 Number 1 (April 1999)
Alethia Volume 2 Number 2 (September 1999)
Alethia Volume 3 Number 1 (April 2000)
Alethia Volume 3 Number 2 (November 2000)
Journal of Critical Realism (incorporating Alethia) Volume 4 Number 1 (May 2001)
Journal of Critical Realism (incorporating Alethia) Volume 4 Number 2 (November 2001)
Journal of Critical Realism (incorporating Alethia) Volume 5 Number 1 (May 2002)
Journal of Critical Realism Volume 1 Number 1 (November 2002)
Journal of Critical Realism Volume 1 Number 2 (May 2003)



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