another candidate: Nicolai Hartmann

From Tim:

“In your latest blog-entry you were asking about a ‘straight-faced, blunt declarations of realism by continental authors prior to 2002.’ Regarding to this I asked myself if Nicolai Hartmann’s Grundzüge einer Metaphysik der Erkenntnis (published 1921) could match to that definition.”

That’s another possibility. I believe Hartmann was using the term “critical realism” before Roy Bhaskar was, but I never read that particular work. Hartmann kind of fell off the map, but has some importance.