The University of Western Ontario, Elborn College, London, ON, Canada.
Nurs Inq. 2012 Mar;19(1):83-95. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00550.x. Epub 2011 Jul 12.
Back- and fore-grounding ontology: exploring the linkages between critical realism, pragmatism, and methodologies in health & rehabilitation sciences As two doctoral candidates in a health and rehabilitation sciences program, we describe in this paper our respective paradigmatic locations along a quite nonlinear ontological-epistemological-axiological-methodological chain. In a turn-taking fashion, we unpack the tenets of critical realism and pragmatism, and then trace the linkages from these paradigmatic locations through to the methodological choices that address a community-based research problem. Beyond serving as an answer to calls for academics in training to demonstrate philosophical-theoretical-methodological integrity and coherence in their scholarship, this paper represents critical realism and its fore-grounding of a deeply stratified ontology in reflexive relation to pragmatism and its back-grounding of ontology. We conclude by considering the merits and challenges of conducting research from within singular versus proliferate paradigmatic perspectives.
探索健康与康复科学中的批判现实主义、实用主义和方法论之间的联系
作为健康与康复科学项目的两名博士生，我们在本文中描述了我们沿着一条相当非线性的本体论-认识论-价值论-方法论链的各自范式定位。以轮流的方式，我们阐述了批判现实主义和实用主义的原则，然后追溯这些范式定位通过方法选择的联系，以解决基于社区的研究问题。除了回应培训中的学者在其学术中展示哲学-理论-方法论的完整性和一致性的呼吁之外，本文还代表了批判现实主义及其对本体论的深刻分层的突显，与实用主义及其对本体论的背景相呼应。我们最后考虑了从单一与多元范式视角进行研究的优点和挑战。
