Reflections from Research Practice
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چکیده
Scientific and Critical Realism attracts increasing attention as a new paradigm of explanation, for many empirical knowledge disciplines. This approach to explaining our social material worlds is underpinned by its ‘depth ontology’, encompassing the reality senses more meta-physical. In this article we introduce explore through rich illustration these alternative ideas about in context everyday early career research experiences. We explain clarify realist compromise - between positivist constructivist ancestry. then trace flow philosophical premises into conceptual variation evident around sense ‘mechanism’, current evaluation literature. To further possible meanings, synthesis contextualises past thinking light historical change from Aristotle Plato, improvement degeneration. offers view on realism foundations then, aid readers’ own understandings explorations natural reasons existence changes, sitting depths universe realist.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Exchanges: The Warwick Research Journal
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2053-9665']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v10i1.815