Pragmatism and Methodology

Alex Gillespie is Professor of Psychological and Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics, UK, and Visiting Professor II at Oslo New University, Norway. He is an expert on communication, especially divergences of perspective, misunderstandings, internal dialogues, distrust, and problems in listening. He uses a variety of methods and has developed several methodological tools. Vlad Glăveanu is Professor of Psychology at Dublin City University, Ireland, and Visiting Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology (SLATE), University of Bergen, Norway. He is a leading expert in the fields of creativity, imagination, wonder, collaboration, and culture research, as well as the founder and president of the Possibility Studies Network and editor of Possibility Studies & Society (Sage). Constance de Saint Laurent is a researcher at the Human Sciences Studio based at The Dock, Accenture's flagship R&D and global innovation center in Dublin, Ireland. She works on trust in technology as well as on the impact of technology and societal changes on people and organisations. She has previously carried out research on social media, misinformation, collective memory, and representations of alterity, some of which has been published in the open access book Social Thinking and History: A Sociocultural Psychological Perspective on Representations of the Past (2021).

'This book offers a more than welcome clarification of the role of pragmatism as a framework for several methodological contexts. It is very important for qualitative, mixed methods, and big data research, and for the methodological foundation of psychological research. It is clearly written and very accessible for various audiences.' Uwe Flick, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

• Preface; 1. Pragmatism; 2. Epistemology: How We Know; 3. Theory: What We Know; 4. Creating Questions; 5. Eliciting and Transforming Data; 6. Mixing Qualitative And Quantitative Methods; 7. Multi-Resolution Research; 8. Ethics; 9. Expanding Human Possibilities; References; Index.