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• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• PART I Qualitative Inquiry and Philosophy
• One Introduction: Situating Metaphysics and Epistemology in Qualitative Research
• PART II Key Epistemological and Metaphysical Problems
• Two In Search of Truths: Empiricism Versus Rationalism
• Three Scepticism, Idea-ism, and Idealism
• Four German Idealism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics
• Five Realism, its Varieties and Contenders
• PART III Intangible Realities
• Six Social Ontology
• Seven Quantum Reality: Contemporary Views of the Things-in-Themselves
• PART IV Philosophy in Qualitative Research
• Eight Conclusions: On Academic Creativity and Philosophical and Methodological Freedom
• Glossary
• References
• Index