<b><i>DIALECTIC AND DIFFERENCE: DIALECTICAL CRITICAL REALISM AND THE GROUNDS OF JUSTICE</i> by ALAN NORRIE</b>

Bowring, Bill

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6478.2010.00518.x

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“…Having argued why individuals, as possessors, carriers, and bringers of values in business deserve attention, it is necessary to theorise agency. Norrie (2010Norrie ( : 2015Norrie ( -2016 states that "[e]xplanation of events in the social sciences is concept-and activity dependent, and a crucial role is played by actors' reasons operating as causes. These link agency to social structure as an irreducible condition of its possibility.…”

Section: Human Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One answer to this is reflexivity of agents, humans' ability to consider existence in general rather than only one's own situation. For instance, Norrie (2010Norrie ( : 2018 reminds us that "Bhaskar introduces new concepts to develop the structure/agency dual, beginning with the moment of hiatus-in-duality affirming the separation and connection of minded agency and structure. This leads in turn to perspectival switch, as the agent shifts from thinking about her personal lived experience to her objective position in the whole, and then to the possibility of generalised reflexivity in relation to the whole.…”

Section: Human Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While the table is organised around the existentialist categories, a parallel with critical realism is obvious. That is to say that Bhaskarian human being-in society-in nature (Norrie, 2010) has a very similar structure to the structure of Dasein, i.e., Heideggerian conception of being-in-the-world. For instance, Bhaskar (2012: 244) states that "every social event or phenomenon must be understood in terms of at least four dimensions: [a] our material transactions with nature; [b] our social interactions with others; [c] social structure; and [d] the stratification of our embodied personalities, rooted […] in terms of our ground-states".…”

Section: The Obscurity Of Change In Values and Its Disambiguationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Humans do not have any other choice but to act in this world (Norrie, 2010). Even deciding to forego, to omit an action is also an action of a kind, it is a choice.…”

Section: The Obscurity Of Change In Values and Its Disambiguationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such reflexive practice can have a direction. Norrie (2010) states, for instance, that human moral evolution is unfinished, while van Deurzen and Adams (2011) claim that now human evolution is evident in how we think about the world, relate with it and change ourselves. Applied to degrowth directly, contemplation of one's existence can contribute to developing one's morality, i. e., becoming a moral agent, considering oneself to be a moral agent, and then acting on the grounds of moral judgement.…”

Section: Human Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Humans do not have any other choice but to act in this world (Norrie, 2010). Even deciding to forego, to omit an action is also an action of a kind, it is a choice.…”

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How ideas connect to the world

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The celebrated Russian philosopher, Evald Ilyenkov, draws on Spinoza to solve a key philosophical problem: how exactly does the mind connect to the real world? However, the proposed solution has come under much criticism, for example in a recent special issue of Studies of East European Thought (74, 3). This paper aims to clearly explain the solution, overcoming misunderstandings that are evident in the special issue. The kernel of the solution is an argument that human cognition rests on practical activity. In practical activity humans do not act on a fixed structure within their own bodies, in the manner, say, that the activity of water is determined by its fixed structure, H2O. Instead, human practical activity directly connects with and continually adapts to the structures and causal powers of external bodies. Awareness of practical activity thereby gives the human mind access to a mode of activity that is in direct contact and ever-greater accordance with the objects of the real world. The paper will elaborate and develop this kernel, with particular attention to the notion of ‘causal powers’ that it contains, by drawing from the revival in philosophy and the social sciences of what has been termed ‘causal powers realism’. The paper thereby opens new insights and connections regarding the Spinoza-Ilyenkov solution, alleviating the potential for misunderstandings evident in the special issue.

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Health, illness and neoliberalism: an example of critical realism as a research resource

Alderson

2021

Journal of Critical Realism

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Neoliberalism, health and illness are all vast topics that range from global to local, personal to political. Critical realism offers valuable concepts, which help to extend and deepen analysis of these large, complex research areas. These include attending to unseen causal influences, absence, values, power, interests, structure and agency and morphogenesis. The four planes, which connect all interrelating forms of social being, provide a framework for managing large, wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary research data and for contextualizing small studies. Critical realism is contrasted with paradigms such as positivism, realist evaluation and actor network theory. This paper is based on a 20-hour generic course about critical realism for doctoral students, initiated by Roy Bhaskar. It uses the example of neoliberalism, health and illness to illustrate how useful critical realism can be as a research resource. The paper is also about the importance of understanding contemporary health in the context of neoliberalism. KEYWORDS: Democracypolitical economyrandomized controlled trialrealist evaluationstructure and agencytheory IntroductionThe topic of health, illness and neoliberalism feels overwhelming, too vast, diverse, political, controversial and alarming to address usefully in a journal paper. Unsurprisingly, the average health and illness paper deals with far smaller, more manageable, and seemingly apolitical and neutral matters that attract research funding, such as evaluating a healthcare programme in a randomized controlled trial (RCT). However, the social RCT literature and research methods are political. They align with the neoliberal position that individuals are responsible for health -therefore they can be blamed for illness -and these individuals can be randomised and therefore assessed. They deflect attention away from powerful social, political and economic structures, which are too large and omnipresent to be evaluated through random allocation (Stein, Cunningham, and Carmody 2021). Relations between health and neoliberalism are further complicated as a topic for journal papers in being largely invisible, denied in most public and open policy debate, and discouraged as topics in academic and commercial research. Even the existence of 'neoliberalism' is questioned, and therefore banished from the mainstream research world of evidence based medicine and demonstrable proof. Although there is much good research that addresses the political economy of health (Bambra 2019; Marmot et al. 2020), nevertheless, as Porpora (2015) concludes, the research could be even better if informed by critical realism. This brief review of critical realism as a research resource is written mainly for readers who are new to critical realism. It draws on my recent book (Alderson 2021), which is based on the 20-hour reading group course for doctoral students initiated by Roy Bhaskar in 2006. Very sadly, Roy died in 2014. I continued convening his course, which changed from being mainly philosophical to being mainly about cri...

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DIALECTIC AND DIFFERENCE: DIALECTICAL CRITICAL REALISM AND THE GROUNDS OF JUSTICE by ALAN NORRIE

Cited by 7 publications

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Health, illness and neoliberalism: an example of critical realism as a research resource

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