Epistemology and Metaphysics for Qualitative Research
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[book]
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\ Tomas Pernecky
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Los Angeles
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: Sage Publications
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, 2016
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viii, 236 p.
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:ill.
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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.