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Hermeneutics and Science

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Editors:
  1. Márta Fehér

    1. Department of Philosophy, Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

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  2. Olga Kiss

    1. Department of Philosophy, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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  3. László Ropolyi

    1. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 206)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Opening Address

    1. Hermeneutics and the Sciences

      • István M. Fehér
      Pages 1-12

  5. Scientific Aspects

    1. The Hermeneutics of Life

      • George Kampis
      Pages 157-169

    2. Was Heisst Biologie Verstehen? Vorüberlegungen zu einer Hermeneutischen Biologie

      • Reinhard Schulz
      Pages 171-182

    3. The Brain as a Hermeneutic Device

      • Péter Érdi, Ildikó Aradi
      Pages 183-198

    4. A Hermeneutical Ethology?

      • Susanne Lijmbach
      Pages 199-205

    5. Heidegger and the Question of Physics

      • Enrico Giannetto
      Pages 207-225

    6. To What Extent does Formal Teleology Still Make Sense?

      • Michael Stöltzner
      Pages 227-246

  6. Language, Rhetoric, Community

    1. The Changing of the Role Accorded to the Lay Public in Science

      • Márta Fehér
      Pages 247-258
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

    Márta Fehér

  • Department of Philosophy, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Olga Kiss

  • Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

    László Ropolyi

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