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What do nurses know?
Author(s) -
Luntley Michael
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
nursing philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.367
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1466-769X
pISSN - 1466-7681
DOI - 10.1111/j.1466-769x.2010.00466.x
Subject(s) - phenomenology (philosophy) , epistemology , conservatism , propositional formula , psychology , computer science , philosophy , propositional variable , artificial intelligence , political science , politics , intermediate logic , law , description logic
This paper defends an epistemic conservatism – propositional knowing‐that suffices for capturing all the fine details of the knowledge of experienced nurses that depends on the complex ways in which they are embedded in shared fields of activity. I argue against the proliferation of different ways of knowing associated with the work of Dreyfus and Benner. I show how propositional knowledge can capture the detail of the phenomenology that motivates the Dreyfus/Benner proliferation.