Dear
Colleagues,
I’m
pleased to invite you to join the inaugural
public webinar for the Critical Realism Network where I will present
“Emergence
as a Sociological Concept” on Tuesday, September 22 from 12-1:30pm
EDT. This webinar will pick up on one of the many key themes from the
Philosophy of Social Sciences Summer Seminars 2015.
In
August, around 35 graduate students, postdoctoral associates and junior
faculty gathered in Chicago to review key texts in Western philosophy and
social theory and then examined critical realism and its implication for
sociological methods and research. Our teaching team included both
sociologists and philosophers: myself, Professor George
Steinmetz, Professor
Douglas Porpora, Professor
Frederic Vandenberghe, Professor
Ruth Groff, Professor
Daniel Little, Dr. Margarita Mooney, and Dr.
Timothy Rutzou.
Key
themes discussed included emergence, causal powers, human
flourishing, sociological constructivism, methodological pluralism, and robust
interdisciplinarity. If you want to learn more, sign up
for our webinar on emergence and review our online
resources.
Regards,
Philip Gorski
