TY - BOOK AU - Pernecky,Tomas TI - Epistemology and metaphysics for qualitative research SN - 1446282384 AV - H62 PY - 2016/// CY - Los Angeles PB - Sage Publications KW - Qualitative research KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Metaphysics KW - fast KW - Empirische Sozialforschung KW - gnd KW - Erkenntnistheorie KW - Metaphysik KW - Qualitative Sozialforschung N1 - 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 ER -