Month: July 2025

IPONS is excited to announce the 28th Annual International Hybrid Nursing Philosophy Conference titled, “Listening and Speaking Otherwise: Encounters at the Edge of Nursing and Philosophy.“

Join the UC Irvine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing Center for Nursing Philosophy in association with the International Philosophy of Nursing Society (IPONS) for the 28th International Nursing Philosophy Conference.

The HYBRID conference will take place physically at the University of California, Irvine in sunny, coastal Southern California, USA, as well as virtually via Zoom. 

This hybrid, multidisciplinary conference aims to generate conversations between philosophy and nursing through a series of invited panel conversations and events. Cutting-edge peer-reviewed abstract panels on current scholarship and ideas in nursing philosophy will also be featured.

For any questions or comments, please feel free to reach out to the conference chairs, Miriam Bender and Jess Dillard-Wright.

IPONS is excited to share an opportunity for our membership to participate in to advance their philosophical knowledge and community with “Summer Camp.” Please see the information below regarding this event. Registration is required.

The Nursing Philosophy Interest Group is hosting “Summer Camp” on July 25 from 9:00-10:30am PST.

The session will be relatively informal and is designed to generate community among philosophers and the philosophy-curious.

Read materials ahead if you can, or just jump in for the conversation!

For our first session, we will discuss:

-Derek Edyvane’s Incivility as Dissent. 

-To augment that, also review:

The abstract and introduction to Clark’s 2008 paper, Faculty and Student Assessment of and Experience with Incivility in Nursing Education

The short editorial, Civility for Whom, by Bray from Inside Higher Education – a critical perspective of civility in the academy

Registration is required, and the registration email will include a link to access PDFs of the readings above. Registration is complimentary.

https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tHy9dcm_SASA9qpi0XJ6dg