Hunting for Heidegger: questioning the sources in the Benner/Cash debate

This paper uses the Cash/Benner debate as an example of how important philo sophical arguments can be hidden due to the use of secondary sources. Nurse academics can get lost in arguments about the secondary sources when there is a much more important issue lurking in the background. This paper argue s that Benner's philosophy is not grounded in Heidegger but Dreyfus's inter pretation of Heidegger. This has the consequence that Heidegger's ontologic al difference is collapsed and that her nursing ideas are weakened because of this. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.