On Thinking, Nursing Scholarship and the Science of the Unique

In this paper, I go back to one of Gary Rolfe's seminal papers entitled "Thinking as a subversive activity: doing philosophy in the corporate university" (2012), published in the journal Nursing Philosophy, to acknowledge and possibly expand on Rolfe's work on thinking, scholarship and the future of the nursing profession. Rolfe is a prolific academic nurse author, and while there is a thread linking his extensive authorship, his work branches out on a variety of sub-topics that this paper cannot do justice to, nor does it intend to be a comprehensive review of his work. In this paper, I aim to develop an account and provide my understanding, inspired by Rolfe's work, on how thinking, scholarship, and nursing science interlink and develop each other, and how scholarly thinking can potentially, notwithstanding certain caveats, flourish and guide the future of nursing education within the university sector.