title: Theory, experience and practice.
abstract: Despite its potential hazards, the activity of questioning theoretical frameworks and proposing solutions is necessary if progress is even to be possible. Intellectual history has by no means ended, so we cannot expect to have all the answers, and from time to time the activity of critical questioning will be frustrating. But intellectual progress requires us to continue the process of asking fundamental questions. The alternative to thinking in this way is indeed unthinkable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, MMU Cheshire, Crewe, UK.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Loughlin
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7598-9808
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fuller
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
authors.forename: Robyn
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bluhm
authors.affiliation: Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buetow
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
authors.forename: Kirstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Borgerson
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D026706:Paternalism; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D013850:Thinking
keywords: Medicine; classification; clinical reasoning; disease; epistemology; ethics; evidence-based medicine; health; healthcare; metaphysics; ontology; patient-centred; person-centred; philosophy; value