Since the time of Descartes philosophers have sought to establish what justifies true beliefs by examining the epistemic conditions immediately underlying knowledge claims. As critics of this ...

QUALITATIVE research designs give us insights on matters we want to know much more about than what meets the eye. Qualitative research designs involve gathering and analyzing non-numerical data. One ...

Balls, P. (2009) Phenomenology in nursing research: methodology, interviewing and transcribing. Nursing Times; 105: 31, early online publication. While nurses can relate to the phenomenological ...

This paper provides an analysis of Merleau-Ponty’s view of philosophical explanation. Some commentators stress his indebtedness to the transcendental tradition, but this influence does not extend to ...

Researchers are interested in how receiving a mailed survey fits into the life of their anticipated respondents. A research methodology that is designed to allow a researcher to come in contact with ...

Phenomenology takes a unique position among the endeavors that purport to be scientific, it is a mode of investigation that emphasizes the intimate qualitative description of human experience rather ...