ABOUT THE CENTRE
Roy Bhaskar's gift to the world is a philosophy that supports the emancipation of all people who are oppressed, and indeed, his ideas extend to the liberation from suffering of "all beings" (Bhaskar in his book Enlightened Common Sense, p. 164). Bhaskar turned to philosophy when he realised - because of certain difficulties that he faced in trying to complete his Ph.D - that contemporary Western philosophy limits human beings' emancipatory potential. The Roy Bhaskar Centre aims to continue Bhaskar's emancipatory work and it is therefore involved in social, educational, and sustainability research, as well as teaching about critical realism. There are many versions of critical realism associated with several different academics (for examples of the different kinds of critical realism click here and here). At the Roy Bhaskar Centre, we aim to reflect the spirit of Roy Bhaskar's original intentions and while we can say that Roy Bhaskar was the founder director of the Roy Bhaskar Centre, which he originally named the International Centre for Critical Realism, Interdisciplinarity, Education and Social Research, it is currently administered by Leigh Price and Eirin Annamo.
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This is Roy Bhaskar
As a person
"he was one of the warmest, most optimistic, delightful people I've met"
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As a philosopher
"he should be a household name...
he was one of the most important thinkers in philosophy of social science and philosophy more broadly."
(David Graeber, author of "Bullshit Jobs" and co-initiator of the Occupy Movement)
​*Photo on front page by Rob Curran on Unsplash