Joint IAS/LUMS Research Forum: Ram Roy Bhaskar - Theory and Practice
Friday 13 January 2006, 16:00
Lecture Theatre 2, Lancaster Leadership Centre
Professor Roy Bhaskar will deliver the next LUMS Research Forum for 2005/06 entitled 'Theory and Practice' on Friday 13th January 2006 in Lecture Theatre 2 from 4:00pm - 5:00pm.
Professor Bhaskar's lecture at LUMS is part of the Bhaskar Lectures - a series of 5 events in January 2006 organised by the Institute of Advanced Studies. Full details are available on the Bhaskar Lectures on the IAS website - or see below.
The Bhaskar Lectures
The Institute of Advanced Studies and Management School are delighted to have Ram Roy Bhaskar as an honoured guest in January 2006. He will be giving five lectures in total:
- Four ‘Bhaskar Lectures’ will chart the emergence and development of critical realism
- One lecture on ‘Theory and Practice’
Roy has been recognized as a brilliant innovative philosopher and originator of a new school of philosophy, critical realism destined to be seen, alongside empiricism, Kantianism, post-modernism, hermeneutics, critical theory, etc., as an essential ingredient in university curricula in philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities generally.
Briefly stated, critical realism can be thought of as a philosophy of science standing somewhere between positivism and postmodernism/poststructuralism. It rejects the former's preoccupation with (often inappropriate) quantification and measurement to the exclusion of other modes of enquiry, whilst rejecting the latter's tendency to downplay the role of non-discursive phenomena – especially when allied to a strong social constructionist ontology.
The 'Bhaskar Lectures' provide an exciting opportunity for staff and students, even those who do not favour critical realism, to access the latest thinking on this perspective from the 'founder' of critical realism.
All welcome.
Programme
Bhaskar Lecture No. 1: The Formation of Critical Realism
Tuesday 10 January, 16:00-17:30, Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) Meeting Room 2-3 (County South).
Bhaskar Lecture No. 2: The Development of Critical Realism
Thursday 12 January, 16:00-17:30, IAS Meeting Room 2-3 (County South)
LUMS & IAS Research Forum: Theory and Practice
Friday 13th January, 16:00-17:30, Management School, Lecture Theatre 2, Leadership Centre.
Bhaskar Lecture No. 3: Applied Critical Realism
Monday 16 January , 16:00-17:30 IAS Meeting Room 2-3 (County South).
Bhaskar Lecture No. 4: The frontiers of Critical Realism
Wednesday 18 January, 16:00-17:30 IAS Meeting Room 2-3 (County South).
