TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rodgers, Beth L
AU  - Rodgers,Beth L
TI  - Developing Nursing Knowledge:  Philosophical Traditions and Influences
SN  - 0781747082   
U1  - N16(Q64) 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; CHAPTER     1  Understanding Nursing Knowledge     1  THE NATURE OF NURSING KNOWLEDGE    2  THE HISTORY OF NURSING KNOWLEDGE    3   Nursing Education    4   Shared Knowledge    5   Borrowed Knowledge    6  KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT    8   Nursing as a Discipline    8   Theory Development    9  NURSING KNOWLEDGEAS A FOUNDATION FOR NURSING PRACTICE AN D RESEARCH      12  The Role of Philosophy: Understanding Nursing Knowledge     13  Knowledge and Science     14  CHAPTER 2  Knowledge in Classical Philosophy     19  COSMOLOGY IN ANCIENT GREECE The Socratic Era    21   The Platonic "Forms"    22   The Demonstrations of Aristotle    24   Influence of Aristotle    31  CHAPTER 3  Knowledge From Within: The Rationalism of Descartes    35  OVERVIEW OF DESCARTES` PHILOSOPHY Historical Influences    36   Development of Method    36   Distinction of Body and Mind    39   Knowledge of the External World    41  Implications    42  Criticisms and Objections    43  Contributions to Modern Science  CHAPTER   4  The Road to Modern Science: British Empiricism    47  PHILOSOPHY OF SIR FRANCIS BACON     48   Emphasis on Applicable Knowledge    49   Need for a New Method   50   Tables of Discovery   53   mplications    54  IDEAS OF JOHN LOCKE    55   Origins of Knowledge     55   Nature of Experience    57   Formation of Complex Ideas    58   Development of Knowledge from Ideas    60  DAVID HUME`S EXPANSION OF LOCKE`SWORK   60  Functions of the Mind   61   CHAPTER   5  The Transcendental Idealism of Immanual Kant  KANT`S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON   69    Priori Judgments    70   Transcendental Doctrine of the Elements New Realm of Knowledge    75   Implications    76   Phenomenology    77  CHAPTER   6  Modern Science: Mirror of Reality  THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOGICAL POSITIVISM Comte`s Positivism    85   Incorporating Logic into Positivism    85  BASIC TENETS OF LOGICAL POSITIVISM    86   Rejection of Metaphysics    86   Role of Language     87   Unification of Science    87  LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND THEORY DEVELOPMENT   88   Theory and Language    88   Theory os a Tool of Prediction    88   Hypotheticodeductive Model   89  LOGICAL POSITIVISM`S INFLUENCE ON NURSING    90   Theory Development    91   Limitations of Logical Positivism in Nursing Theory Development    92  CHAPTER   7  Science in Context: Historicist Conceptualizations of Science  OVERVIEW OF HISTORICISM    98  INFLUENCE OF THOMAS KUHN    99   Paradigms   99   Kuhn`s Contributions to Science and Nursing    102  LAUDAN`SVIEW OF SCIENCE    106   Critique of Kuhn`s View    106   Problem Solving    107  Laudan and the Sociology of Knowledge    109   Laudon`s Contributions to Nursing and Science    110  CHAPTER   8  Conceptual Repertoires and Leaps    115  BACKGROUNDS FOR UNDERSTANDING TOULMIN   Precedence of the Rational View of Science    116   Kuhn`s Influence on Rationalism in Science    116  TOULMIN`S IDEA OF SCIENCE    117  Inward-Looking Versus Outward-Looking Approaches  Definitions of a Discipline    120  Toulmin`s Definition of Scientific Problems    121  Understanding the Concepts of a Discipline    122  Explanation of Change    123  The Nature and Role of Concepts    125  Role of "Strategic Consensus"     125  SUMMARY OF TOULMIN`S WORK    126   RELEVANCE FOR NURSING    127
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