The fictionalist paradigm

Paley, John

doi:10.1111/j.1466-769x.2010.00470.x

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“…In the same way, although the blurb says that I “suggest alternatives to PQR” specifically , Giorgi claims that I propose “an alternative to qualitative research” as a whole —because that is what a mathematically minded “empiricist” would do (it is well known that “empiricists” object to qualitative data on principle). Again, although I discuss recent philosophy of science in the final chapter and in several footnotes, and although I have published work on this topic before (Paley, , , , ), Giorgi claims I am “completely insensitive to the discussions that historians and philosophers of science have concerning how scientific communities function”—because “empiricists” draw on positivist philosophy, and know nothing of Kuhn, Feyerabend, Hanson, or Lakatos.…”

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Phenomenology and qualitative research: Amedeo Giorgi's hermetic epistemology

Paley

2018

Nursing Philosophy

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Amedeo Giorgi has published a review article devoted to Phenomenology as Qualitative Research: A Critical Analysis of Meaning Attribution. However, anyone reading this article, but unfamiliar with the book, will get a distorted view of what it is about, whom it is addressed to, what it seeks to achieve and how it goes about presenting its arguments. Not mildly distorted, in need of the odd correction here and there, but systematically misrepresented. The article is a study in misreading. Giorgi misreads the book's mise en scène; he misreads its narrative arc; he misreads individual arguments; he misreads short, simple passages; he misreads the philosophy of the science literature; he misreads his own data; he misreads the title; he misreads the blurb; he misreads the acknowledgements. In addition, there are serious failures of scholarship (ironically, he demonstrates how unacquainted he is with the relevant literature at the very moment he is accusing me of being ill-informed). In this reply, I provide several examples of these errors, but my primary aim is to understand why Giorgi's misreading is as ubiquitous as it is. To this end, I explain his mistakes by reference to the hermetic epistemology within which he is confined.

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Phenomenology and qualitative research: Amedeo Giorgi's hermetic epistemology

Paley

2018

Nursing Philosophy

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“…Each paradigm therefore has its own quality beacon. For example, the paradigm of fictionalism seeks ‘emotional cadence’ (Paley, 2011). While fictionalism is not particularly useful to most researchers it is impossible to discount as a worldview.…”

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“…This is a significant and worthwhile step, and is one CA has taken. However, earlier in his paper (p. 53) Paley (2011) suggested that pragmatism may transcend these paradigm distinctions altogether, and this is therefore a debate worth pursuing to see if it is possible to escape the confines of paradigmatic presuppositions.…”

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“…(2005) qualitative synthesis of help seeking behaviour in cancer, incorporating 32 papers and published in the Lancet would be viewed by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network as lesser evidence than a poorly controlled randomized trial published in a considerably less rigorous environment. To understand this we must very briefly describe research paradigms in order to show how this widely rejected view of epistemology (Risjord, 2010; Paley, 2011; Thorne, 2011) persists. This is important to CA as ambiguous assumptions about paradigms are evident in the application of grounded theory, and CA was developed in recognition of this.…”

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Concurrent analysis: a pragmatic justification

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2012

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Concurrent analysis (CA) is a process of synthesizing conceptually equivalent data for the purpose of producing a coherent and predictive model in social science. The process of CA is detailed. In short, CA uses Thagard's concept of coherence as a method of explicating links between mental representations. The product is a wide analysis of all pertinent data. This paper provides a philosophical justification for the need and function of CA. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section reviews some problems with the metasynthetic literature. The purpose of this is that CA can be initially understood as a branch of this type of synthesis. The second section links Risjord's post-paradigmatic position to Rorty's version of pragmatism in order to show the importance of the concept of coherence to these views. The reason for linking these issues is that CA is grounded in rejection of ontological priority. Instead it prioritises a pragmatic conception of coherence. The final section details the mechanics of CA. Concurrent analysis is presented as the most coherent method of synthesizing certain types of narrative evidence if pragmatism is prioritized over ontology. Examples are given from published studies using CA to illustrate the detail of the analysis and the practical value of the product. The examples show that CA appears useful under certain circumstances. These circumstances will be specified, and strengths and weaknesses of the method will be discussed.

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“…Of all the papers I've had published in Nursing Philosophy , “The fictionalist paradigm” (Paley, ) is quite possibly my favourite. This view is obviously not widely shared—the paper has a grand total of four citations, one of them by me—but that is one of the reasons I have an affection for it.…”

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