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Perspectives on philosophy of science in nursing : an historical and contemporary anthology

Title

Perspectives on philosophy of science in nursing : an historical and contemporary anthology / edited by E. Carol Polifroni, Marylouise Welch.

Format

Book

Published

Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [1999] ©1999

Description

xvii, 538 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other contributors

Polifroni, E. Carol, editor. Welch, Marylouise, editor.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing
• The focus of the discipline of nursing
• Nursing values and science: toward a science philosophy
• Objectivity, value judgment, and theory choice
• "The focus of the discipline of nursing": a critique and extension
• (Mis)conceptions and reconceptions about traditional science
• Positivism and realism
• Arguments concerning scientific realism
• Dissecting the Holist picture of scientific change
• The nature of scientific truth
• Experimentation and scientific realism
• Nursing's syntax revisited: a critique of philosophies said to influence nursing theories
• The pragmatics of explanation
• The function of general laws in history
• Explanation in nursing science
• Nursing knowledge and human science: ontological and epistemological considerations
• Psychological determinism and the evolving nursing paradigm
• Free will in process perspective
• The train of thoughts in the lectures
• A return to Husserl and researcher self-awareness
• Exposition of the question of the meaning of being
• Quality of life: a phenomenological perspective on explanation, prediction, and understanding in nursing science
• A Heideggerian phenomenologic perspective on the concept of the person
• Phenomenology of perception
• The universality of the Hermeneutical problem
• Natural science and hermeneutics: the concept of nature in ancient philosophy
• Towards a theory of communicative competence
• Practical discourse in nursing: going beyond empiricism and historicism
• Critical theory as a framework to enhance nursing science
• The importance of critical theory to nursing: a description using research concerning discharge decision-making
• The instability of the analytical categories of feminist theory
• Voices and paradigms: perspectives on critical and feminist theory in nursing
• Gender and science
• Uncovering gynocentric science
• After the neutrality ideal: science, politics, and "strong objectivity"
• Gender and nursing science
• Postmodernism and knowledge development in nursing
• A treatise on nursing knowledge development for the 21st century: beyond postmodernism
• The necessity for and evolution of multiple paradigms for nursing research: a poststructuralist perspective
• The dilemma of nursing science: current quandaries and lack of direction.

Review

"This unique collection of articles has been expertly designed to help you explore the origins, development, and diversity of Western scientific philosophic thought and to understand its relation to contemporary nursing practice."--Jacket.

Subject headings

Nursing--Philosophy.

Medical subjects

Philosophy, Nursing. Nursing Theory.

Genre heading

Collected Works. Collected Work.

ISBN

9780781712019 paperback 0781712017 paperback