Hermeneutics and Science

by Feher, Marta; Kiss, Olga; Ropolyi, Laszlo; International Society for Neuroimmunomodulation

• ISBN13: 9780792357988
• ISBN10: 0792357981
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Hermeneutics was elaborated as a specific art of understanding in humanities. The discovered paradigmatic, historical characteristics of scientific knowledge, and the role of rhetoric, interpretation and contextuality enabled us to use similar arguments in natural sciences too. In this way a new research field, the hermeneutics of science emerged based upon the works of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger and Gadamer. A dialogue between philosophers and scientists begins in this volume on hermeneutic approaches to physics, biology, ethology, mathematics and cognitive science. Scientific principles, methodologies, discourse, language, and metaphors are analyzed, as well as the role of the lay public and the legitimation of science. Different hermeneutical-phenomenological approaches to perception, experiments, methods, discovery and justification and the genesis of science are presented. Hermeneutics shed a new light on the incommensurability of paradigms, the possibility of translation and the historical understanding of science.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Dagfinn Follesdal
OPENING ADDRESS
Hermeneutics and the Sciences	1	(12)
Istvan M. Feher
1. PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSES
Perceptual Reasoning -- Hermeneutics and Perception	13	(12)
Don Ihde
Productive Objectivity: The Hermeneutics of Performance in Experimental Inquiry	25	(10)
Robert P. Crease
Parallelen zwischen Heideggers und Kuhns Wissenschaftsauffassung	35	(24)
Tibor Schwendtner
Kuhn, Scheler and the Revolutionary Genesis of Modern Science. A hermeneutical approach to the question of an existential significance of the scientific attitude	59	(16)
Gabor Toronyai
Worum geht es in den Naturwissenschaften?	75	(10)
Mihaly Vajda
Interfaciology	85	(8)
Otto E. Rossler
Friction of Bodies, Friction of Minds	93	(8)
Agnes Heller
2. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Wissenschaftsgeschichte als hermeneutisches Problem. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Karl Poppers ``Dritte Welt'' - Hermeneutik	101	(16)
Karl-Otto Apel
Accomplishing Translation: The Notion of Evidence in the Discipline of the History of Science	117	(8)
Gary L. Hardcastle
Meaningful Mistakes. On Historiography of Incommensurable Paradigms	125	(10)
Olga Kiss
Incommensurability as a Bound of Hermeneutics in Science	135	(22)
Antonino Drago
3. SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS
The Hermeneutics of Life	157	(14)
George Kampis
Was heisst Biologie verstehen? Voruberlegungen zu einer hermeneutischen Biologie	171	(12)
Reinhard Schulz
The Brain as a Hermeneutic Device	183	(16)
Peter Erdi
Ildiko Aradi
A Hermeneutical Ethology?	199	(8)
Susanne Lijmbach
Heidegger and the Question of Physics	207	(20)
Enrico Giannetto
To What Extent Does Formal Teleology Still Make Sense?	227	(20)
Michael Stoltzner
4. LANGUAGE, RHETORIC, COMMUNITY
The Changing of the Role Accorded to the Lay Public in Science	247	(12)
Marta Feher
To Eliminate Human Discourse by Means of the Metaphysical Language of Things	259	(6)
Laszlo Fekete
Language and the Double Hermeneutic in Natural Science	265	(16)
Martin Eger
Science, Hermeneutics, and Metaphorical Thought	281	(12)
Michael J. Zenzen
5. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Hermeneutics and Natural Science	293	(6)
Dagfinn Follesdal
The Difference Between Science and Hermeneutics: Habermas's Theory of the Necessarily Normative Nature of Linguistic Interpretation	299	(8)
Dieter Freundlieb
Against the Selfish Theory	307	(8)
Laszlo Ropolyi
The Justification of the Application of Science	315	(10)
Bart Gremmen
Value-Free Worlds and Value-Imposing Minds. Representational Practices and the Constructivist Argument	325	(28)
Laszlo I. Komlosi
CLOSING ADDRESS
Expanding Hermeneutics	345	(8)
Don Ihde
List of Participants	353	(4)
Index	357