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TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring Philosophically Driven Research in Nursing
T2 - An Exploration of Research Driven by Jamesian Pragmatism
AU - Pettifer, Annie
AU - Hughes, Sean
PY - 2025/4/30
Y1 - 2025/4/30
N2 - Nursing research has commonly taken a problem-based approach to research design seeking to ground research endeavour within the phenomena with which nursing is occupied. The aim of this paper is to explore an alternative of using philosophical imperative as a research driver, considering both the appropriateness and implications of this approach for nursing. Jamesian pragmatism, with its emphasis on plural, fluid ontology and evolving knowledge, aligns with nursing and is one philosophical imperative which has much to the profession. The paper offers an exemplar of research into family members' experience of the diminishing drinking of a dying relative, which was undertaken within, and from, a pragmatic imperative. Research driven by philosophical imperative has consequences. The philosophical imperative will likely to be pervasive across the research, influencing research topic, conceptualisation, design, delivery and utilisation, bringing both advantages and constraints.
AB - Nursing research has commonly taken a problem-based approach to research design seeking to ground research endeavour within the phenomena with which nursing is occupied. The aim of this paper is to explore an alternative of using philosophical imperative as a research driver, considering both the appropriateness and implications of this approach for nursing. Jamesian pragmatism, with its emphasis on plural, fluid ontology and evolving knowledge, aligns with nursing and is one philosophical imperative which has much to the profession. The paper offers an exemplar of research into family members' experience of the diminishing drinking of a dying relative, which was undertaken within, and from, a pragmatic imperative. Research driven by philosophical imperative has consequences. The philosophical imperative will likely to be pervasive across the research, influencing research topic, conceptualisation, design, delivery and utilisation, bringing both advantages and constraints.
U2 - 10.1111/nin.12699
DO - 10.1111/nin.12699
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Nursing Inquiry
JF - Nursing Inquiry
SN - 1320-7881
IS - 2
M1 - e12699
ER -