Epistemology and metaphysics for qualitative research /

Pernecky, Tomas.

Epistemology and metaphysics for qualitative research / by Tomas Pernecky. - New Delhi : SAGE Publication : 2016. - viii, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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: Empiricism 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 Qualitative Research -- Conclusions: On Academic Creativity and Philosophical and Methodological Freedom.

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Qualitative research.--Social Ontology
Empiricism
Metaphysics.
Qualitative Sozialforschung

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