TY - BOOK AU - Pernecky, Tomas. TI - Epistemology and metaphysics for qualitative research SN - 1446282384 U1 - 300.18 PY - 2016/// CY - New Delhi PB - SAGE Publication KW - Qualitative research KW - Social Ontology KW - Empiricism KW - Metaphysics KW - Qualitative Sozialforschung N1 - 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 ER -