A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Heidegger’s Theory of Truth and its Importance for Quality of Qualitative Research




AuthorsRauno Huttunen, Leena Kakkori

PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd

Publication year2020

JournalJournal of Philosophy of Education

Volume54

Issue3

Number of pages17

ISSN0309-8249

eISSN1467-9752

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12429

Web address https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9752.12429

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/46820942


Abstract

When reliability and validity were introduced as validation criteria for empirical research in the human sciences, quantitative research methods prevailed, and theory of science relied on neopositivism (Vienna Circle) or postpositivism (scientific realism). Within this worldview, notions of reliability and validity as criteria of scientific goodness were introduced. Reliability and validity were associated with the correspondence theory of truth, which is mostly ill-suited to the needs of qualitative research. For that reason, qualitative research must look for other kinds of validation criteria. The article elaborates the problems arising when the correspondence theory of truth is used as an ultimate criterion in evaluating qualitative research and proposes Heidegger’s hermeneutical or alethetical idea of truth as a more suitable approach.


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