Introduction: Philosophical Enquiry into Education; J.Drummond & P.Standish.- PART 1: ETHICS OF EDUCATION AND PRACTICE.- Nursing, and the Notion of Virtue as a 'Regulative Ideal'; P.A.Scott.- Philosophy and Health Education: the case of lung cancer and smoking; P.Allmark and A.Todd.- Foucault, Nurse Counselling and Narrative Therapy; T.Besley.- PART 2: PROFESSION, KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE.- Care, Sensibility and Judgment; M.Luntley.- Practice and its informing knowlege: an Aristotelian understanding J.Dunne.- Profession and Practice: The Higher Education of Nursing; P.Standish.- PART 3: CURRICULUM AND EXPERTISE.- The Myth of the Golden Mean: Professional Knowledge and the Problem of Curriculum Design; G.Lum.- Distributed Expertise and the Education Reflex; J.Paley.- Particularizing the General: Challenges in Teaching the Structure of Evidence Based Nursing Practice; S.Thorne & R.Sawatzky.- PART 4: POLITICS OF EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY.- Little Narratives of Nursing: Education in a Postmodern World; G.Rolfe.- Care of the Self in a Knowledge Economy: Higher Education, Vocation and the Ethics of Michael Foucault; J.Drummond.- Gadamer's Enigma of Health: Can Health be Reduced?; M.Peters, K.Hammond & J.Drummond.