Epistemology and metaphysics for qualitative research / Tomas Pernecky.
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TextPublisher: Los Angeles : Sage Publications, 2016Description: viii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781446282397
- H 62 .P422 2016
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DLSU-D GRADUATE STUDIES Graduate Studies | Graduate Studies | H 62 .P422 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3CIR201765840 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-229) and index.
Part I: Qualitative Inquiry and Philosophy -- Introduction: Situating Metaphysics and Epistemology in Qualitative Research -- Part II: Key Epistemological and Metaphysical Problems -- In Search of Truths: Epiricism Versus Rationalism -- Scepticism, Idea-ism, and Idealism -- German Idealism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics -- Realism, its Varieties and Contenders -- Part III: Intangible Realities -- Social Ontology -- Quantum Reality: Contemporary Views of the Things-in-Themselves -- Part IV: Philosophy in Qulitative Research -- Conclusions: On Academic Creativity and Philosophical and Methodological Freedom.
Challenging current modes of thinking, and covering areas not usually found in qualitative research texts such as social reality/ontology and quantum reality/mechanics, this book helps readers to choose and defend their research methods and to take their work beyond standard perspectives. [oclc WorldCat]
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