Conducting Hermeneutic Research

Dr. Nancy J Moules, RN, PhD is a Professor and Associate Dean, Research in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary. She is cofounder and co-chair of the Canadian Hermeneutic Institute and Editor of Journal of Applied Hermeneutics. Dr. Graham McCaffrey, RN, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary. He has continued to explore issues in nursing using perspectives from the humanities. He is the author of Nursing and Humanities (2020). Dr. James C Field, PhD is an Associate Professor Emeritus with the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. He has taught and conducted hermeneutic research on teachers’ experience of inquiry-based learning. Dr. Catherine M Laing, RN, PhD is a professor and Dean of the Faculty of Nursing, at the University of Calgary. She has been a registered nurse since 1998, and is active at local, provincial, national, and international levels for research, leadership, and administration. Dr. Theodore D George, PhD is Professor of Philosophy and Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University and member (adjunct) of the Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary. His research areas include contemporary hermeneutics, post-Kantian European philosophy, and the philosophy of art and Aesthetics. macrofinance theory, and development economics.

• List of Figures - Foreword to First Edition: The Wisdom of Hermeneutics by John D. Caputo (2015 edition) - Preface and Acknowledgments - Chapter One: Coming to Hermeneutics - Chapter Two: A History of Hermeneutics - Chapter Three: Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics - Chapter Four: On Being Methodical and Following Leads - Chapter Five: The Address of the Topic - Chapter Six: Conducting Interviews in Hermeneutic Research - Chapter Seven: Interpretation as Analysis - Chapter Eight: Interpretation as Writing - Chapter Nine: The Rigor and Integrity of Hermeneutic Research - Chapter Ten: "So What?" - Implications of Hermeneutic Research - Chapter Eleven: Conclusion – Firsts and Lasts - Index