Mervyn Hartwig is a foundation member of the International Association for Critical Realism, founding editor of Journal of Critical Realism and author/editor of A Dictionary of Critical Realism (Routledge 2007). He taught history and philosophy of the social sciences for many years in Sydney. He now lives in London, and is working with Roy Bhaskar on a book on the formation of critical realism. His interests include the congruences between First Nations philosophy and critical realist philosophy, in particular the philosophy of meta-Reality.