title: Teaching philosophy of science in nursing doctoral education.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the teaching and learning process regarding philosophy of science and to offer creative recommendations based on classroom experience.
  
  
  METHODS
  Dewey's writings about intelligence, deliberation, and critical reflection; Freire's writings about active knowers provide the foundation for the teaching and learning environment for doctoral students.
  
  
  METHODS
  A case example is presented. Creative strategies and assignments are used, such as classroom exploration and connections between nursing, philosophy, philosophy of science, and students' personal lives; classroom deliberation; journaling; philosophical thinking; development of a philosophical topic such as determinism, freedom, or the mind; and presentation of a philosophical book.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The philosophy of science course is critical content for doctoral students.
authors.affiliation: University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA. janie.butts@usm.edu
authors.forename: Janie Bond
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Butts
authors.forename: Karen Saucier
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Lundy
mesh_terms: D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy; D012586:Science / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods