The authors of the present article reflect on the difficulties of nursing research and its relation with its practice, which is based on the philosophy of praxis. Initially, there is a discussion on the relationship between theory and praxis from a philosophical perspective. The authors make a resumed review of nursing knowledge in the last century. Finally, they present the dialectic of interactions as a possibility of advancing beyond the territories of the dialectic of work. According to the authors, complex areas of knowledge related to health/illness/care cannot be exclusively studied by formal sciences or exclusively by biological and social sciences. They believe that a consistent epistemological project has to consider a third area that would include the dialectic of reasoning and the dialectic of representations.
research in nursing; philosophy and nursing