Peircean realism
A primer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bridget Ritz (0000-0002-0322-9930, University of Notre Dame Notre Dame Indiana USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 515-527 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12340 |
| OpenAlex | W4214650634 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 34 |
Charles S. Peirce's realism has been neglected by pragmatists and critical realists alike in the current debate over metatheoretical realism in sociology. This paper introduces Peirce's view of what is at stake in the question of realism, specifically regarding causation. Leveraging current interest in Peirce's conception of abduction, I show how realism about causation is implicit therein. I present a genealogy of the concept of real causation Peirce embraces. I explicate Peirce's view of the scientific significance of realism about causation, and why he finds it compelling. Finally, I argue that Peirce would intervene in the current debate by saying that those committed to abductive theorizing and causal explanation are implicitly realist
Causation · Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Epistemology · Pragmatism · Realism · Scientific realism · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Peirce's Theory of Signs
Abductive Analysis
What Is a Person?
The Art of Social Theory
Reconstructing Sociology
Realist Social Theory
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
The Relational Subject
Charles Peirce and Scholastic Realism
How did Abduction Get Confused with Inference to the Best Explanation
The Aart of Ethnography
The Formation of Critical Realism
Introduction to the special issue
Explaining Society
Comparing abduction and retroduction in Peircean pragmatism and critical realism
The Explanation of Social Action
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
A Realist Theory of Science
Meaning and Modernity
What is Critical Realism? And Why Should You Care
A Pragmatist Approach to Causality in Ethnography
What Is Agency
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |