title: [Research assisting nursing practice: a philosophical view].
abstract: The authors of the present article reflect on the difficulties of nursing research and its relation with its practice, which is based on the philosophy of praxis. Initially, there is a discussion on the relationship between theory and praxis from a philosophical perspective. The authors make a resumed review of nursing knowledge in the last century. Finally, they present the dialectic of interactions as a possibility of advancing beyond the territories of the dialectic of work. According to the authors, complex areas of knowledge related to health/illness/care cannot be exclusively studied by formal sciences or exclusively by biological and social sciences. They believe that a consistent epistemological project has to consider a third area that would include the dialectic of reasoning and the dialectic of representations.
authors.affiliation: Departamento Materno-Infantil e Saúde Pública da EERP-USP.
authors.forename: Semiramis Melani Melo
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Rocha
authors.forename: Maria Cecília Puntel
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: de Almeida
authors.forename: Regina Aparecida Garcia
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: de Lima
mesh_terms: D015399:Nursing Research; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing