Half Title -- About author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Review -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- REFERENCE -- Series -- I. The Practice Discipline -- What Is a Practice Discipline? -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS PRACTICE? -- Practice Boundaries -- The Nature of Practice: An Emphasis on the Interpersonal -- WHAT IS A DISCIPLINE? -- Disciplinary Boundaries -- Who is a Legitimate Member of a Discipline? -- Who Can Legitimately Produce Knowledge for the Discipline? -- A PRACTICE DISCIPLINE AS A PROFESSION: AN EMPHASIS ON THE ETHICAL -- MOVING TOWARD A DEFINITION OF A CONTEMPORARY PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE DISCIPLINE -- SUMMARY -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Nursing as a Practice Discipline -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EVOLUTIONARY IDENTITY OF NURSING AS A PRACTICE DISCIPLINE -- 1910: First a "Field" -- 1960s: A Practice Discipline Begins to Emerge -- 2010: New Energy, New Tension: A DNP Degree Surges -- THE NATURE OF DISCIPLINARY NURSING PRACTICE -- Basic and Professional Nursing Practice -- A Distinction: Advanced Practice Nursing versus Advanced Nursing Practice -- Valuing Direct and Indirect Nursing Functions and Roles Differently -- Beyond the MSN: Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice -- SUMMARY: NURSING AS A PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE DISCIPLINE -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Philosophy of Science in a Practice Discipline -- INTRODUCTION -- A NURSING PERSPECTIVE -- Philosophy of Science in a Practice Discipline -- Philosophy of Science in the Discipline of Nursing -- Philosophy of Science in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Curriculum -- A PHILOSOPHY PERSPECTIVE -- Philosophy of Science in a Practice Discipline -- Philosophy of Science in the Discipline of Nursing -- Philosophy of Science in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Curriculum -- SUMMARY -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES.

II. Philosophy of Science Principles and Concepts for a Practice Discipline -- Philosophy and Philosophizing -- PHILOSOPHY AND ITS MISCONCEPTIONS -- PHILOSOPHIZING AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES: LESSONS FROM EUTHYPHRO -- A LITTLE LOGIC -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- The Scientific Revolution -- WHAT IS SCIENCE? HOW ABOUT WHEN IS SCIENCE? -- MODERN SCIENCE -- Mathematization -- Experimentation -- Religion and Culture -- CONCLUSION -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- One Hundred Years of the Philosophy of Science: A Historical Overview -- INTRODUCTION -- LOGICAL POSITIVISM -- Empiricism -- Positivism -- Central Ideas -- KARL POPPER -- THOMAS KUHN -- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AFTER KUHN -- THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE -- FEMINISM AND SCIENCE -- THE SCIENCE WARS -- CONCLUSION -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- What is Science? The Problem of Demarcation -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PURPOSE(S) OF SCIENCE -- LOGICAL POSITIVISM: SCIENCE IS VERIFIABILITY -- POPPER: SCIENCE IS FALSIFIABILITY -- KUHN: SCIENCE IS PUZZLE SOLVING -- IMRE LAKATOS: SCIENCE IS A RESEARCH PROGRAM(S) -- PAUL FEYERABEND: SCIENCE IS ANARCHISM -- CONCLUSION -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Scientific Methodology -- INTRODUCTION -- The Problem of Induction -- Hypothetico-Deductivism -- Probability Theory -- The Hypothetico-Deductive Method -- CONCLUSION -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Observation: The Scientific Gaze -- INTRODUCTION -- SOME CONVENTIONAL NOTIONS -- THE PRESUMPTIONS OF EMPIRICISM -- PROBLEMS WITH EMPIRICISM -- A Paradigm Case: Terri Schiavo -- Some Basic Problems -- Further Problems -- Observing PVS -- CONCLUSIONS: CAN OBJECTIVITY BE SAVED? -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Theory and Reality -- JUST A THEORY -- THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC THEORIZING -- THE METAPHYSICS OF SCIENCE -- Scientific Realism.

No-Miracles Argument and Continua -- Structural Realism and Entity Realism -- Antirealism -- The Problems of Empiricism -- Locke, Berkeley, and Hume -- Logical Positivism, Phenomenalism, and Instrumentalism -- Constructive Empiricism -- Postmodernism and Reality -- CONCLUSION -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Explanation and Laws -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEDUCTIVE-NOMOLOGICAL MODEL -- Laws -- Back to the D-N Model -- THE INDUCTIVE-STATISTICAL (I-S) MODEL -- THE CAUSAL MODEL -- PROBLEMS OF INFERENTIAL EXPLANATION -- THE PRAGMATIC MODEL OF EXPLANATION -- THE UNIFICATION MODEL OF EXPLANATION -- CONCLUSION -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- The Feminist Critique of Science -- DIFFERENCE AND SUPERIORITY -- HOW MIGHT A FEMINIST ANSWER PROFESSOR HIGGINS? -- TRADITIONAL (MALE) SCIENCE AS EXCLUSIONARY SCIENCE -- FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGY: DO WOMEN REALLY THINK DIFFERENTLY FROM MEN? -- Three Feminist Epistemologies -- Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the Values of Science -- CONCLUSION -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Philosophy of Social Science -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CENTRALITY OF HUMAN ACTION -- THEORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Prediction -- Description -- Explanation -- ETHICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research Ethics in Social Science -- Other Ethical Issues -- CONCLUSION -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Philosophies of Social Science -- INTRODUCTION -- RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY -- FUNCTIONALISM -- HERMENEUTICS -- PHENOMENOLOGY -- CRITICAL THEORY -- POSTMODERNISM -- CONCLUSION -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- III. From Philosophy of Science to Nursing Science -- The Path to Nursing Science Today, 1910-2010 -- INTRODUCTION -- A 100-YEAR HISTORY OF NURSING SCIENCE: WHAT WAS BEING PUBLISHED? -- The Nursing Field Circa 1910 -- Nursing: A "Field" Technically Becomes A "Profession" Circa 1935.

On the Precipice of a "Discipline" and the Rise of Modern Nursing Circa 1960 -- The Scientific Discipline of Nursing Emerges Circa 1985 -- A Critical Juncture for Nursing Knowledge Development Circa 2010 -- SUMMARY -- OPTIONAL SET OF CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISES: IS THIS NURSING SCIENCE? -- Group Project -- Article #1 -- CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE QUESTIONS -- Article #2 -- CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE QUESTIONS -- Article #3 -- CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE QUESTIONS -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Next Steps Toward Practice Knowledge Development: An Emerging Epistemology in Nursing -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT KIND OF NURSING KNOWLEDGE SHOULD DNP GRADUATES PRODUCE? -- Is It "Practice Inquiry"? -- Is It "Actionable Knowledge"? -- Is It "Mode 2 Knowledge"? -- Or Is It "Practice Knowledge"? -- CONCEPTUALIZING PRACTICE KNOWLEDGE -- A Proposed Model for Scientific Inquiry in Nursing -- HOW TO BEST OPERATIONALIZE PRACTICE KNOWLEDGE IN DNP PROGRAMS -- DIFFERENTIATING PHD, HYBRID, AND PROFESSIONAL, PRACTICE OR CLINICAL DOCTORATE PROGRAMS -- SUMMARY -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Index -- Back Cover.