A Passage to the Idea for a Hermeneutic Philosophy of ScienceIn this book the author has brought together his long-standing interests in theory of scientific rationality and hermeneutic ontology by developing a hermeneutic alternative to analytic (and naturalist) epistemology of science. The hermeneutic philosophy of science is less the name of a new field of philosophical than a demand for a repetition of the basic philosophical questions of science from hermeneutic point of view. The book addresses chiefly two subjects: (I) The hermeneutic response to the models of rational reconstruction of scientific knowledge; (II) The specificity of hermeneutico-ontological approach to the cognitive pluralism in science. |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Topics in the Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science | 10 |
On the Limits of the Rational Reconstruction of Scientific Knowledge | 29 |
On the Hermeneutic Nature of Group Rationality | 39 |
Towards a Hermeneutic Theory of Progressive Change in Scientific Development | 55 |
Beyond Naturalism and Traditionalism | 71 |
A Critical Note on Normative Naturalism | 94 |
Micro and Macrohermeneutics of Science | 102 |
Concluding Remarks | 111 |
References | 120 |
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