Knowledge Doesn’t Exist the Way We Think It Does

Quite recently, my new book, Knowledge Doesn’t Exist and Other Thoughts on Critical Thinking, was released by Cambridge University Press. The focus of the book was largely inspired by a conversation I had with a fellow researcher (in light of a previous post on this blog , where I criticised both qualitative and quantitative researchers who exclusively use one or the other, when a mixed approach is often a better strategy). I’d like to discuss that conversation here because it addressed some important implications for critical thinking.

The other researcher suggested that the methodology we use should, to a large extent, be dictated by our epistemological philosophy . For example, are you a positivist, interpretivist, a hypothetico-deductivist, a post-positivist or some other stance