title: What do nurses know?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. michael.luntley@warwick.ac.uk
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Luntley
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003210:Concept Formation; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D019545:Intuition; D019359:Knowledge; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D012660:Semantics; D013850:Thinking