Overview
- Is the first to inquire into the role of perceptual experience within the framework of hermeneutics
- Provides a critical alternative to postmodern appropriations of hermeneutics
- Achieves a ‘fusion of horizons’ between the two thinkers
Part of the book series: Contributions to Hermeneutics (CONT HERMEN, volume 1)
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Table of contents(6 chapters)
Keywords
- Conceptual content of perceptual experience
- Critique of Brandom’s distinction between de re and de dicto
- Critique of Vattimo’s conception of interpretation
- Gadamer and Sellars’ space of reasons
- Gadamer’s notion of objectivity
- Heidegger on assertion
- Hermeneutics and transcendental philosophy
- McDowell’s reading of Kant and Hegel
- Phronesis
- Tradition and prejudice
- Wittgenstein on rule-following
About this book
Thaning's book is a richly detailed, well-argued and coherent presentation of a defensible, and potentially very important, philosophical position. It demonstrates an impressively deep understanding of the literature both from the phenomenological tradition and from the part of the analytical tradition, inspired by Wilfred Sellars, to which John McDowell belongs. Being a substantial philosophical achievement in its own right, the book raises far-reaching ques
tions that will be of interest to a wide audience.
Dr. Steven Crowell, Rice University, Houston (USA)
Morten Thaning’s book is an important contribution to the discourse of philosophical hermeneutics. Thaning extensively discusses a topic, which recent debates have touched upon, but which up to now has not been the subject matter of concentrated scholarly work: the relation between Gadamer’s hermeneutics and McDowell’s empiricism. With Thaning’s interpretation Gadamer’ work can be read anew as concerning the problem of hermeneutical objectivity.
Prof. Dr. Günter Figal, University of Freiburg (Germany)
Authors and Affiliations
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Copenhagen Business School, Department of Politics, Management and Philosophy, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Morten S. Thaning
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Problem of Objectivity in Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Light of McDowell's Empiricism
Authors: Morten S. Thaning
Series Title: Contributions to Hermeneutics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18648-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18647-4Published: 02 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37279-2Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18648-1Published: 21 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2509-6087
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 212
Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Ontology