Scientific Methodology
CHAPTER EIGHT Scientific Methodology What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience? This implies a new question, which may be of more difficult solutions and explication. —David Hume (1748/1974)…
Next Steps Toward Practice Knowledge Development: An Emerging Epistemology in Nursing
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Next Steps Toward Practice Knowledge Development: An Emerging Epistemology in Nursing New forms of knowledge production can, as they diffuse, make for ambiguous situations as older demarcation lines…
Observation: The Scientific Gaze
CHAPTER NINE Observation: The Scientific Gaze There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball. —Norwood Russell Hanson (1965) There is perhaps no more basic and fundamental element of modern…
The 100-Year Path to Nursing Science, 1910 to 2010: With Epilogue, 2010 to 2015
CHAPTER FIFTEEN The 100-Year Path to Nursing Science, 1910 to 2010: With Epilogue, 2010 to 2015 Nursing education is undergoing drastic changes. —Annie W. Goodrich (1936) In this chapter, we…
Philosophies of Social Science
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Philosophies of Social Science Man, who desires to know everything, desires to know himself. Nor is he only one … among other things he desires to know. Without…
Explanation and Laws
CHAPTER ELEVEN Explanation and Laws To explain the phenomena in the world of our experience, to answer the question “why?” … is one of the foremost objectives of empirical science….
100 Years of the Philosophy of Science: A Historical Overview
CHAPTER SIX 100 Years of the Philosophy of Science: A Historical Overview We may best hope to understand the nature and conditions of real knowledge, by studying the nature and…
What Is a Practice Discipline?
CHAPTER ONE What Is a Practice Discipline? In responding to the challenge of relating theory to practice, it is not enough simply to argue for an “enlightenment model” which sees…
Philosophy and Philosophizing
CHAPTER FOUR Philosophy and Philosophizing This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin. —Plato (2003) Before beginning an exploration of the various…
What Is Science? The Problem of Demarcation
CHAPTER SEVEN What Is Science? The Problem of Demarcation Science is very clearly a conscious artifact of mankind, with well-documented historical origins, with a definable scope and content, and with…
