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Those disagreements have sometimes become quite heated, such as the debate between Christian Smith and John Levi Martin, although it is intriguing that the critical realist Smith begins with an olive branch and it is the pragmatist Martin who chooses battle instead (Martin [14], [15]; Smith [20], [21]). Jamie Morgan, for example, has suggested that critical realists would find value in the work of the leading contemporary pragmatist Nicholas Rescher (Morgan [16]). Bhaskar himself thus appears to take something like an "overlapping patchworks" approach to the relation between pragmatism and critical realism. Pragmatists have sometimes been positively hostile towards critical realist ontology (e.g. Kivinen and Piiroinen [12]), and critical realists have sometimes criticized pragmatism in fairly robust terms, as Doug Porpora does in his first contribution to our roundtable (Barman, Porpora, and Carrigan [2]). [Extracted from the article]

One theme of this special issue is an incitement to reconsider the relationship between pragmatism and critical realism. While their advocates sometimes come into conflict, there are also clearly borrowings and overlaps between the traditions, and we therefore invited scholars with feet in either or indeed both camps to discuss their relationship. The discussion was conducted virtually, with participants submitting initial contributions, reviewing each other's submissions, and then responding to each other in their second round of contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Submission by 31st July 2021 The relationship between pragmatism and critical realism is open to many interpretations. The situation is complicated by the diversity of pragmatist perspectives and indeed the variety of interpretations of critical realism. Papers are invited for a special issue of I Journal of Critical Realism i which examine any aspect of the relationship between pragmatism and critical realism, from any disciplinary perspective. [Extracted from the article]