Ontology

Expanding Being through Collective Knowledge

Review of Roy Bhaskar’s framework of Critical Realism within Systemic Design.

Critical Realism

A diagram containing the primary concepts in Critical Realism, unfolding with the Critical Realist Holy Trinity.

📚 Literature

A Realist Theory of Science
Roy Bhaskar
1975
🧿 Ideologies and Imaginaries

A diagram containing the primary concepts in Critical Realism, unfolding with the Critical Realist Holy Trinity.

Transcendental Realism

A table containing a progressive overview of Critical Realism’s transcendental realism as it relates to understanding reality.

📚 Literature

From East To West: Odyssey of a Soul
Roy Bhaskar
2000
🧿 Religiosity and Spirituality

A table containing a progressive overview of Critical Realism’s transcendental realism as it relates to understanding reality.

Critical Naturalism

A diagram demonstrating the split between personal and societal dialectic along Bhaskar’s transformational modes of social activity.

📚 Literature

The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences
Roy Bhaskar
1979
🧿 Knowledge and Interpretation

A diagram demonstrating the split between personal and societal dialectic along Bhaskar’s transformational modes of social activity.

Judgemental Rationality

A diagram demonstrating how judgement of experiences is discerned from the political, economic, cultural, and ecological perspectives that modulate said experience.

📚 Literature

A Realist Theory of Science
Roy Bhaskar
1975
🧿 Ideologies and Imaginaries

A diagram demonstrating how judgement of experiences is discerned from the political, economic, cultural, and ecological perspectives that modulate said experience.

Bhaskar’s Polysemy

A table that categorizes Roy Bhaskar’s analysis of truth and being up to a transformative praxis.

📚 Literature

From East To West: Odyssey of a Soul
Roy Bhaskar
2000
🧿 Religiosity and Spirituality

A table that categorizes Roy Bhaskar’s analysis of truth and being up to a transformative praxis.

Ordering System

A nested ordering system that drives systemic design from intension to emergent whole systems.

📚 Literature

The Design Way
Harold G. Nelson
2012
🍄 Aesthetics and Design

A nested ordering system that drives systemic design from intension to emergent whole systems.

Life Course Cube

An outline of a cube as a framework for the interdependent domains of life experienced by individuals and their relative societal subsystems.

📚 Literature

The life course cube: A tool for studying lives
Laura Bernarndi
2019
💡 Research and Application

An outline of a cube as a framework for the interdependent domains of life experienced by individuals and their relative societal subsystems.

Ontology of Emergence

A diagram of dual initiatives of deepened self-knowledge and transformative engagement.

📚 Literature

Critical realism and the ontology of persons
Roy Bhaskar
2020
💡 Meditation and Reflexivity

A diagram of dual initiatives of deepened self-knowledge and transformative engagement.

Orders of Learning

A table of the types of learning graduating towards leadership oriented characteristics.

📚 Literature

The Design Way
Harold G. Nelson
2012
🍄 Aesthetics and Design

A table of the types of learning graduating towards leadership oriented characteristics.

Circles of Sustainability

A diagram of circles containing a domain of Sustainability; Politics, Economics, Culture, and Ecology with their respected subdomains.

📚 Literature

Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Circles of Sustainability
Paul James
2015
💡 Teaching and Training

A diagram of circles containing a domain of Sustainability; Politics, Economics, Culture, and Ecology with their respected subdomains.

Engagement Circles

A cube outline used to relate engagement circles from the Circles of Sustainability research method.

📚 Literature

Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Circles of Sustainability
Paul James
2015
💡 Teaching and Training

A cube outline used to relate engagement circles from the Circles of Sustainability research method.

TMSA-Social

A diagram and orientation of social interactions along epistemic and ethical guidelines.

📚 Literature

The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences
Roy Bhaskar
1979
🧿 Knowledge and Interpretation

A diagram and orientation of social interactions along epistemic and ethical guidelines.

TMSA-Material

A diagram and orientation of material transactions with nature along epistemic and ethical guidelines.

📚 Literature

The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences
Roy Bhaskar
1979
🧿 Knowledge and Interpretation

A diagram and orientation of material transactions with nature along epistemic and ethical guidelines.

TMSA-Structure

A diagram and orientation of social structures along epistemic and ethical guidelines.

📚 Literature

The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences
Roy Bhaskar
1979
🧿 Knowledge and Interpretation

A diagram and orientation of social structures along epistemic and ethical guidelines.

TMSA-Embodied

A diagram and orientation of embodied personalities along epistemic and ethical guidelines.

📚 Literature

The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences
Roy Bhaskar
1979
🧿 Knowledge and Interpretation

A diagram and orientation of embodied personalities along epistemic and ethical guidelines.