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Historical and epistemological perspectives on research and nursing
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1994This paper examines four main themes with respect to some problematic issues concerning the discipline of nursing, nursing scholarship and the social sciences First, attention is directed to the controversial issues concerning nursing's search for a knowledge base Second, a historical context is provided by drawing attention to some key developments ...
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Rethinking Historical Epistemology
2015IN AN INTERVIEW ON MAGICAL REALISM, Salman Rushdie acknowledges, quite astonished, that his novels are regarded as works of magical realism in the West, whereas in India they are treated as historical texts.1 This dichotomy between history and literature is central to the analysis of the relationship between Diasporic Marvellous Realism and the ...
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Historical‐Epistemological Context
2002AbstractSets out the epistemological context for my enquiry, by outlining the key moves in a formative phase of its historical development: the writings of Descartes, Locke, Hume, Reid, and Kant. My purpose here is not to engage in the detailed exegesis and interpretation of these philosophers’ views, but to delineate the space of live options in the ...
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The historical epistemology of empathy
Abstract Recent interest in the concept of empathy in psychology, psychiatry, and neurosciences has highlighted the confusion around the meaning and nature of the concept and the phenomena it captures. When empirical research impacts on clinical care, it becomes particularly important to understand the concept and the factors shaping ...openaire +1 more source
Stephen Gaukroger and the Neutrality of Historical Epistemology
In this short essay I reflect on Stephen Gaukroger’s enterprise especially aspresented in the four-volume study on science and the shaping of modernity,and ask if it is a version of historical epistemology. Because the Gaukrogerianproject is (deliberately?) ambiguous when it comes to choosing between thesafe neutrality of the study of science, and the ...openaire +2 more sources
The Challenge of a Historical Epistemology of Space
2015The chapter introduces the program of a historical epistemology of space and discusses the relation of the historical development of knowledge to its phylogenetic and ontogenetic developments. The chapter further provides an overview on the remaining chapters of the book.
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Elements of a Historical Epistemology of Space (TOPOI – Towards a Historical Epistemology of Space)
2013The essay presents an outline of a historical epistemology of space in the sense of a developmental theory of forms of spatial thinking. Starting with the natural conditions of spatial cognition through to concepts of space imposed by advanced disciplinary science, manifestations of spatial thinking in different cultures and historical epochs are ...
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Catherine Malabou’s Historical Epistemology
ParagraphThis article seeks to address what the work of Catherine Malabou can offer to the thinking and understanding of history. Characterizing Malabou’s intellectual project as a meditation on the relation between history and possible knowledge, it situates the philosopher’s work in the tradition of historical epistemology.
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