Written for DNP and PhD nursing programs, this text, based on a unique, team-taught philosophy of science nursing courses, distills challenging content and delivers it in clear, highly accessible language for professors untrained in philosophy and their students.

Table of Contents

• Reviewers
• Reviewers, First Edition
• Foreword Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, ANEF, FAAN
• Preface
• Introduction
• SECTION I: THE PRACTICE DISCIPLINE
• 1. What Is a Practice Discipline?
• 2. Nursing as a Practice Discipline
• 3. Philosophy of Science in a Practice Discipline
• SECTION II: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS FOR A PRACTICE DISCIPLINE
• 4. Philosophy and Philosophizing
• 5. The Scientific Revolution
• 6. 100 Years of the Philosophy of Science: A Historical Overview
• 7. What Is Science? The Problem of Demarcation
• 8. Scientific Methodology
• 9. Observation: The Scientific Gaze
• 10. Theory and Reality
• 11. Explanation and Laws
• 12. The Feminist Critique of Science
• 13. Philosophy of Social Science
• 14. Philosophies of Social Science
• SECTION III: FROM PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE TO NURSING SCIENCE
• 15. The 100-Year Path to Nursing Science, 1910 to 2010: With Epilogue, 2010 to 2015
• 16. Next Steps Toward Practice Knowledge Development: An Emerging Epistemology in Nursing
• Appendix A: Sample Philosophy of Science Syllabus
• Appendix B: Suggestions for Syllabi Using Philosophy of Science for Nursing Practice
• Appendix C: Glossary of Philosophical Terms