This chapter advocates a cognitively realistic approach to social simulation. based on a model for capturing the growth of academic science. Gilbert’s (1997) model, which was equation based, is replaced in this work by an agent-based model, with the cognitive architecture CLARION providing greater cognitive realism. Using this agent model, results comparable to human data are obtained. It is fo...

This paper reflects on research carried out with a group of women receiving intensive family support aimed at addressing the cause of their family's 'anti-social behaviour'. The methodological approach to the research was underpinned by the philosophical principles of critical realism. It was also informed by the ethical and political concerns of feminist scholarship. The paper reports on the p...

artistic conceptions of realism and the values and concepts that guided medical practice. The joint analysis of artistic realism and scientific objectivity helps in understanding the complexity of both notions, as well as their social and political implications. In my opinion, this is one of the most interesting contributions of the book. Instead of taking for granted what these concepts mean, ...

one of the significant issues in ir is that of inter – state conflict and cooperation. various schools such as realism and liberalism have endeavored to theoretically explain it. in so doing, this article seeks to outline the views offered by a constructivist thinker, alexander wendt. he treats ir as a socially constructed discipline. this article argues that although wendt has managed to advan...

Social positioning theory, in defending a general social ontology, is particular extension of critical realism. It theory constitution that clarifies how items including human beings and things are relationally organized as instances community components. This realism directly comparable to fundamental but underexamined contributions the classical American pragmatist John Dewey specifically his...