title: Practical Discourse Revisited: Hermeneutics at the Intersection of Philosophy and Nursing.
abstract: Three early papers by Janice Thompson-Practical Discourse, Critical Scholarship, and Hermeneutic Inquiry-are examined in reference to the historical context of the time (1985-1990), and implications for current scholarship. Hermeneutic philosophy has been neglected in recent years, overshadowed by its weaker cousin phenomenology. I argue that renewed attention to hermeneutics would help us focus on the "situatedness" of nursing scholars, the class politics of academia, and a better balance in interpretative work between faith and suspicion. Critical hermeneutics also offers a more robust understanding of praxis and phronesis, and links to pragmatism and social studies of science.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
authors.forename: Stephen M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Padgett
mesh_terms: D004645:Empathy; D066297:Hermeneutics; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000523:psychology*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing / Q000266:history*