The Relations Between Nursing and Philosophy … Some Wonderings.

In this paper I summarize a talk I was invited to give by the International Philosophy of Nursing Society (IPONS) as the Steven Edwards Memorial Lecture at the 2024 international nursing philosophy conference in association with IPONS. This occurred in the absolutely sublime setting of the restored outdoor Dodona Theatre, home to the ancient Greek oracle Dodona, mentioned in both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and which lies a few miles outside Ioannina, Greece, which was the site of the conference. In this magical setting I described a long tradition of rich diversity in terms of how nursing has engaged philosophy to produce, refine, and critique ideas, concepts, and arguments relevant to nursing. I then interrogated some of these relations and wondered about some future potentials for nursing and philosophy.