Abstract Realist political theory is often confronted with the objection that it biased towards status quo. Although this criticism overlooks fact realist theories contain various resources for critique, a approach strong in quo critique and contributes, constructively, to theorising of alternatives desideratum. The article argues contextual realism, which sources its normativity from particula...

Structural realism has been proposed as an epistemological position interpolating between realism and sceptical anti-realism about scientific theories. The structural realist who accepts a scientific theory Θ thinks that Θ is empirically correct, and furthermore is a realist about the ‘structural content’ of Θ. But what exactly is ‘structural content’? One proposal is that the ‘structural conte...