A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Heidegger’s Theory of Truth and its Importance for Quality of Qualitative Research
Authors: Rauno Huttunen, Leena Kakkori
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Publication year: 2020
Journal: Journal of Philosophy of Education
Volume: 54
Issue: 3
Number of pages: 17
ISSN: 0309-8249
eISSN: 1467-9752
DOI: https://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 address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/46820942
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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