John Paley's Challenge

John Paley’s "Heidegger, lived experience and method" (in press, this journal) challenges phenomenologists who rely upon Heidegger for theoretical support and guidance to critically review their grounding assumptions. And, if Paley’s critique ‘holds’, it could be that the argumentative coherence and by implication usefulness of a considerable number of supposedly Heideggerian informed studies collapse. Moreover, the manner in which Paley’s challenge is met may tell us much – for good or ill – about the rigour and status of nursing scholarship. This aspect of Paley’s challenge is underdeveloped in his paper and it is this aspect of his work that I discuss here