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Putting philosophy to work: developing the conceptual architecture of research projects
Journal of critical realism, Vol.22(3), pp.364-383
2023
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Abstract
Research necessarily entails the close interrelation of concepts and arguments, including solutions to a range of meta-questions, whether acknowledged explicitly or not. Despite this, few detailed accounts currently exist that support researchers to develop their complex conceptual architectures, especially in critical realist spheres. Indeed, many published accounts often omit much of this ‘messiness’ that sits behind, yet is foundational to, research projects. Those accounts that do seek to portray how/why researchers have made decisions (e.g. about connections between research philosophy, methodology, methods, theory and empirical evidence) tend to focus on one set of meta-questions, or occasionally on the relationships between two sets, at a time. Therefore, this paper presents a flexible framework – supported by specific examples from studies – that we hope will be useful in supporting researchers from all traditions, but especially critical realists, to carefully think through and develop more holistic connections in their conceptual architecture.
Details
- Title
- Putting philosophy to work: developing the conceptual architecture of research projects
- Creators
- Adam J. Nichol - Northumbria UniversityCatherine Hastings - Macquarie UniversityDave Elder-Vass - Loughborough University
- Publication Details
- Journal of critical realism, Vol.22(3), pp.364-383
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Identifiers
- 991013126107302368
- Copyright
- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article