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Critical Realism: some responses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2012

COLIN WIGHT
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I would like to thank the editors for giving me the opportunity to respond to some of the criticisms raised in the forum on Critical Realism, or what is sometimes known as scientific realism (CR/SR). In this short response I shall attempt to correct some of the misunderstandings of Critical Realism in the forum, but also highlight a fundamental philosophical disagreement that has important political consequences.

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Review of International Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 267 - 274
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 2012

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1 Weber, Martin, ‘Ontologies, depth, and otherwise: Critical Notes on Wight's meta-theoretical proposal of a scientific IR’, Review of International Studies, 38:1 (2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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3 Wight, Agents, pp. 51–61.

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8 Michel's attempts to make a lot of the supposed CR commitment to the subject/object split. Let me just make my position clear, a position I think, Heidegger would endorse; all consciousness is consciousness of something, that there is no consciousness, as such, cut off from an object.

9 Wight, Agents, p. 37.

10 Wight, Agents, pp. 25–6.

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14 Wight, Agents, p. 18.

15 There is also a sense that these Young Hegelians are somewhat behind the curve in terms of where the social sciences are heading and there is a distinct move towards a new materialism see, for example, Cool, Diane, and Frost, Samantha (eds), New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.