Justin Cruickshank - Research output - University of Birmingham

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Dr Cruickshank welcomes applications from people seeking to undertake doctoral research in the areas of:

Sociology of education
Social theory
The philosophy of the social sciences
The application of theory to empirical research
The sociology and politics of knowledge, especially as applied to the issues of public intellectuals, higher education and the democratisation of the public sphere

Research activity per year

28 Article
12 Paper
6 Chapter
5 Book/Film/Article review
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1 - 50 out of 60 results

2020
Solidarity, critique and techno-science: evaluating Rorty's pragmatism, Freire's critical pedagogy and Vattimo's philosophical hermeneutics
Cruickshank, J., 30 Apr 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Human Affairs. 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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The expansion of Prevent: on the politics of legibility, opacity and decolonial critique
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jun 2020, In: New Formations. 100, 100, p. 43-59 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2019
Economic freedom and the harm of adaptation: on Gadamer, authoritarian technocracy and the re-engineering of English higher education
Cruickshank, J., 11 Jul 2019, In: Social Epistemology. 33, 4, p. 337-354 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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1 Citation (Scopus)

201 Downloads (Pure)
Neoliberalism, Technocracy and Higher Education Editors' Introduction
Cruickshank, J., 9 Jul 2019, In: Social Epistemology. 33, 4, p. 273-279
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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2 Citations (Scopus)

342 Downloads (Pure)
2017
Democratic Problem-Solving: Dialogues in Social Epistemology
Cruickshank, J. & Sassower, R., May 2017, London: Rowman & Littlefield. (Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2016
Dialogue and the development of ideas in the political and social sciences: from critical-realism to problem-solving via Colin Hay and the rejection of the epistemic fallacy
Cruickshank, J., 2016, In: European Journal of Cultural And Political Sociology. 3, 1, p. 72-96 25 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Putting Business At The Heart Of Higher Education: On Neoliberal Interventionism And Audit Culture In UK Universities
Cruickshank, J., 18 Feb 2016, In: Open Library Of Humanities. 2, 1, 33 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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11 Citations (Scopus)

188 Downloads (Pure)
Rowan Williams and Hans-Georg Gadamer contra Jürgen Habermas: rethinking the problem of religion for liberals as a problem of dialogue
Cruickshank, J., 1 Dec 2016, In: Current Perspectives in Social Theory. 35, p. 171-191
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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1 Citation (Scopus)

317 Downloads (Pure)
2015
Anti-Authority: Comparing Popper and Rorty On The Development of Beliefs and Practices
Cruickshank, J., 2 Jan 2015, In: Social Epistemology. 29 , 1, p. 73-94 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)

80 Downloads (Pure)
Big Data, TTIP And The Hubris Of Techno-Capitalism
Cruickshank, J. & Chis, I., 21 Feb 2015, In: Social Epistemology Review And Reply Collective. 4, 3, p. 45-55
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
Neoliberalism, The 'Scientific Enterprise' And The 'Business Of People': Comments On The Sociology And Politics Of Knowledge
Cruickshank, J., 14 Aug 2015, In: Social Epistemology Review And Reply Collective. 4, 8, p. 53-65 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
2014
Democracy versus the Domination of Instrumental Rationality: Defending Dewey's Argument for Democracy as an Ethical Way of Life
Cruickshank, J., 2 Jan 2014, In: Humanities . 3, 1, p. 19-41 23 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Exit, Voice and Loyalty in the Public Sphere: On the Hollowing Out of Universities and the ‘Trojan Horse’ Attack on the Muslim Community in the UK
Cruickshank, J. & Chis, I., 29 Aug 2014, In: Social Epistemology Review And Reply Collective.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Exit, Voice And Loyalty In The Public Sphere: On The Hollowing Out Of Universities And The “Trojan Horse” Attack On The Muslim Community In The UK. Continuing The Dialogue With Raphael Sassower
Cruickshank, J. & Chis, I., 2014, In: Social Epistemology Review And Reply Collective. 3, 9, 57-70.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
From Ex Cathedra Legislators To Dialogic Exemplars? Popper, Rorty And The Politics And Sociology Of Knowledge. A Reply To Raphael Sassower
Cruickshank, J., 2014, In: Social Epistemology Review And Reply Collective. 3, 5, p. 30-41
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
Problem-Solving And The Social Production Of Knowledge: A Reply To Isaac Reed
Cruickshank, J., 2014, In: Social Epistemology Review And Reply Collective. 3, 2, p. 24-33
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
Public Intellectuals, Education And The Need For Dissatisfaction: Comments On Raphael Sassower’s Discussion Of Popper, Rorty And Democracy
Cruickshank, J., 2014, In: Social Epistemology Review And Reply Collective. 3, 7, p. 1-4
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
The Cost Of Public Intellectuals: Reflections On Raphael Sassower’s Call For Intellectuals To Influence Elites And Their Publics
Cruickshank, J. & Chis, I., 2014, In: Social Epistemology Review And Reply Collective. p. 16-26
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
2012
Positioning Positivism, Social Constructionism And Critical Realism In The Health Sciences: A Philosophical Orientation
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2012, In: Nursing inquiry. 19, 1, p. 71-82 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
32 Citations (Scopus)
2011

International Migration Institute Working Papers: The Positive And The Negative: Assessing Critical Realism And Social Constructionism As Post-Positivist Approaches To Empirical Research In The Social Sciences
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2011.
Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Working paper
2010
Knowing Social Reality: A Critique of Bhaskar and Archer's Attempt to Derive a Social Ontology from Lay Knowledge
Cruickshank, J., 1 Dec 2010, In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 40, 4, p. 579-602 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
9 Citations (Scopus)
Structures, Agents and Criticism: Assessing Bhaskar's Fact-To-Value and Value-To-Fact Arguments
Cruickshank, J., 1 Oct 2010, In: Politics. 30, 3, p. 168-173 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
1 Citation (Scopus)
The importance of nominal problems
Cruickshank, J., 2010, Objective knowledge in social sciences and humanities: Karl Popper and beyond. Max Weber Programme, p. 61-71 10 p. (Max Weber Programme Working Papers; vol. 2010, no. 37).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2008

Some Realistic Considerations on the Death of Philosophy
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2008, In: Journal of Critical Realism. 7, 2, p. 314-329 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2007

A Critical Realist Approach to Understanding and Evaluating Heart Health Programmes
Clark, A. & Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2007, In: Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 11, 4, p. 513-539 27 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

49 Citations (Scopus)
Essentialism
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2007, A Dictionary of Critical Realism.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Seeking the Tower of Babel
Cruickshank, J., 1 Aug 2007, In: Sociology. 41, 4, p. 741-748 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
The usefulness of Fallibilism in post-positivist philosophy: A Popperian Critique of Critical Realism
Cruickshank, J., 1 Sept 2007, In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 37, 3, p. 263-288 26 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

6 Citations (Scopus)
2006

Postdisciplinarity and the study of Lay Normativity: Retheorising Class in Social Science (a review of A. Sayer The Moral Significance of Class
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2006, In: Journal of Critical Realism. 5, 1
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2004

A tale of two ontologies: an immanent critique of critical realism
Cruickshank, J., 1 Nov 2004, In: Sociological Review. 52, 4, p. 567-585 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

38 Citations (Scopus)
'Critical Realism and the Search for a Post-Disciplinary Canon'
Cruickshank, J., 1 Mar 2004.
Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Paper
Practical Knowledge and Realism: Linking Andrew Collier's work on Lay Knowledge with Karl Popper's work on the Philosophy of Science
Cruickshank, J., Archer, M. & Outhwaite, W., 1 Jan 2004, Defending Objectivity: Essays in Honour of Andrew Collier.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Response to Neil Curry's Review of Realism and Sociology
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jun 2004, In: Journal of Critical Realism. 3, 1, p. 165-167 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Review of A. Elliott Critical Visions: New Directions in Social Theory
Cruickshank, J., 1 Dec 2004, In: British Journal of Sociology. 55, 4, p. 591 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
'The Constructive Aporia Of Theory'
Cruickshank, J., 1 Apr 2004.
Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Paper
2003

Critical Realism: The Difference it Makes
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2003, Routledge.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
'How Popper became Popper' (review article dealing with M. H. Hacohen's 'Karl Popper: the Formative Years 1902-1945. Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Viennna'
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2003, In: History and Philosophy of Psychology. 5, 1, p. 94-104 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
'Problems with Critical Realism'
Cruickshank, J., 1 Sept 2003.
Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Abstract
Realism and Sociology: Anti-Foundationallism, ontology and social research
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2003, Routledge.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Underlabouring and Unemployment: notes for developing a Critical Realist Approach to the Agency of the Chronically Unemployed
Cruickshank, J. & Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2003, Critical Realism: The Difference it Makes.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2002

'Critical Realism, Ethnography and the Underclass Debate'
Cruickshank, J., 1 Aug 2002.
Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Paper
Critical Realism and Critical Philosophy: on the usefulness of Philosophical Problems
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2002, In: Journal of Critical Realism. 1, 1, p. 49-66 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Review of C.L. Hamlin Beyond Relativism: Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2002, In: Journal of Critical Realism. 1, 1, p. 165-167 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
What is "Critical" about Critical Realism?
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2002.
Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Paper
2001

Beyond Realism and Postmodernism? Rorty on Pragmatism, Liberalism and the Self
Cruickshank, J., Lopez, J. & Potter, G., 1 Jan 2001, After Postmodernism: An Introduction to Critical Realism.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Conference Report. Debating Realism(s)
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2001, p. 55. 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Paper
'First Principles: what are they, and who needs them?'
Cruickshank, J., 1 Aug 2001.
Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Paper
'Rational Choice, Identity and the Underclass Debate'
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jul 2001.
Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Paper
2000

Ethnocentrism, Social Contract Liberalism and Positivistic-Conservatism: Rorty's Three Theses on Politics
Cruickshank, J., 1 Jan 2000, In: Res Publica. 5, 1, p. 1-23 23 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)
From Metaphysics to Pragmatism: Rorty on Liberalism and Social Justice
Cruickshank, J., Calder, G., Garrett, E. & Shannon, J., 1 Jan 2000, Liberalism and Social Justice: International Perspectives.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter