Perspectives on philosophy of science in nursing : an historical and contemporary anthology
E. Carol Polifroni (Editor), Marylouise Welch (Editor)
"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
Print Book, English, 1999
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 1999
Collected Work
xvii, 538 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780781712019, 0781712017
38562389
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