Ontological investigations in Speculative Realism encompass a resurgence of metaphysical enquiry that rejects the idea that reality is accessible only through human thought. Emerging in the late 2000s ...

Issue 5:2 (2010) of the journal Applied Ontology is now online at www.applied-ontology.org. The issue features three high-quality papers: Ontological realism: Methodology or misdirection? / Gary H.

Critical realism emerged in the late twentieth century as a response to both positivist empiricism and post-modern constructivism. It posits a stratified social reality, where observable events are ...