Andrew Basden's Adventures with Dooyeweerd

Andrew Basden's new book Foundations and Practice of Research subtitled Adventures with Dooyeweerd's Philosophy is soon to be published. I hope to post an interview with Andrew on the book in the next few weeks.

Full book detials are available here

Foundations and Practice of Research: Adventures with Dooyeweerd's Philosophy (Routledge Advances in Research Methods) 
By Andrew Basden
London: Routledge, 2019
304 pages, Hbk
ISBN 9781138720688
( A kindle version will also be available)

Synopsis from the publisher's website:

Many of the issues on which meaningful research is founded are seldom discussed; for example, the role of everyday experience, diversity and coherence of meaning in the world, the meaningfulness and wider mandate of research, the very nature and validity of theoretical thought, and the deep presuppositions of philosophy and how they undermine the success of research.

Such questions are material to the philosophies that guide research thinking in all fields, and since they cannot be satisfactorily addressed in a piecemeal fashion, this book employs the radically different philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd to consider them together. Parts I and II discuss these issues theoretically and philosophically, while Part III discusses them practically, specifically the adventures that researchers across the world have had using Dooyeweerd's philosophy.

Foundations and Practice of Research assembles a wide range of experiences of using Dooyeweerd's philosophy in research in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, the social sciences, design sciences and the humanities. Case studies demonstrate how Dooyeweerd's philosophy has been found fruitful in most stages of research, and the philosophical discussion backs this up. This book challenges researchers to join the adventures, including suggestions of potential research that could be carried out, as well as questions still left unanswered

Table of contents

List of tables
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements


Chapter 1. Introduction

1-1. Adventures with Dooyeweerd's philosophy
1-2. Research
1-3. Practice
1-4. Foundations
1-5. Guide for readers

Part I

Chapter 2. Research and everyday experience

2-1. Some preliminaries
2-2. The researcher-world relationships: detached or participant observer?
2-3. The relationship between theoretical and pre-theoretical thinking
2-4. The value of theoretical and pre-theoretical knowledge
2-5. Understanding everyday, pre-theoretical experience
2-6. Everyday experience and research
2-7. Conclusions


Chapter 3. Diversity and coherence

3-1. A philosophical look at diversity and coherence
3-2. Dooyeweerd's aspects
3-3. Diversity and coherence of research activity
3-4. Diversity and coherence of research application
3-5. Diversity and coherence in research content (theories)
3-6. Conclusion


Chapter 4. Meaning in research and reality, and an overview of Dooyeweerd's understanding of reality

4-1. Preliminaries
4-2. Treatment of meaning in philosophy
4-3. Meaningfulness as the foundation for ontology, epistemology and axiology
4-4. Potential relevance for research
4-5. Conclusion


Chapter 5. Research and philosophy

5-1. Roles of philosophy in research
5-2. Levels of presupposition
5-3. Standpoints
5-4. The development of Dooyeweerd's philosophy
5-5. Crossing research philosophy boundaries
5-6. Conclusion

Part II

Chapter 6. On theoretical knowledge and research

6-1. The challenge of truth
6-2. On the non-neutrality of theoretical thought
6-3. Dooyeweerd's second transcendental critique of theoretical thought
6-4. Dooyeweerd's perspective on truth
6-5. Conclusion


Chapter 7. Ground-ideas: how philosophies work

7-1. Dooyeweerd's notion of three-part ground-idea
7-2. On progress and advance in knowledge
7-3. Ground-ideas a basis for dialogue
7-4. Applications of ground-ideas in research projects
7-5. Conclusion


Chapter 8. Fields of research

8-1. Understanding research fields and disciplines
8-2. On paradigms
8-3. Concepts and ideas in a field
8-4. Conclusion

Part III

Chapter 9. Dooyeweerd's suite of aspects

9-1. Description of each aspect
9-2. Grouping the aspects?
9-3. Comparison with other suites
9-4. On trusting Dooyeweerd's suite
9-5. Conclusion


Chapter 10. The complex activity of research

10-1. Overall approach: "LACE"
10-2. Research as multi-aspectual functioning
10-3. The more visible aspects of research activity
10-4. Some less-obvious aspects of research activity
10-5. A case study: activities in a knowledge project
10-6. Conclusions

Chapter 11. Experience of research using Dooyeweerd

11-1. Stages of research using Dooyeweerd
11-2. Understanding the discourses and literature of a field with Dooyeweerd
11-3. Conceptual frameworks: Dooyeweerdian adventures among paradigms
11-4. Conceptual frameworks: clarifying concepts and ideas
11-5. Using Dooyeweerd to discuss research methods
11-6. Data collection with Dooyeweerd
11-7. Using Dooyeweerd in data analysis
11-8. Extending these ideas: new adventures awaited
11-9. Conclusion

Part IV

Chapter 12. Criticisms of Dooyeweerd

12-1. Criticisms of Dooyeweerd's ideas
12-2. Reflection


Chapter 13. Summary and conclusions

13-1. Summary of contributions to research
13-2. The changing world of research
13-3. Coverage of Dooyeweerd's philosophy
13-4. The adventure is just beginning

References
Index