Critical realism - my next steps
Since writing my last blog post I passed my 2nd year of study and got my upgrade. But, as I mentioned in the comments and reflections I wrote to my supervisor, the examiners who reviewed my work clearly picked up on the tensions and the struggles that I was trying to navigate between a critical realist stance and an interpretivist stance. ( " Truth Values - Ayn Rand - Relativism - Objectivism - free to use " by Templestream is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 .) While Scott (2010) points out that, from a pragmatist stance, such considerations are essentially epistemic and are therefore not related the collection and analysis of data, in much the same manner as Scott (2010), I have to say I disagree. I can't remember the author, or where I read it (if anyone has a reference for this, please message me or leave a comment) but I remember reading somewhere that ontology could be understood as asking the question of what the world/reality is like, what can be known and ...