Hermeneutic Realism: Reality Within Scientific Inquiry

✍ Scribed by Dimitri Ginev (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Series: Contributions to Hermeneutics 4
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This study recapitulates basic developments in the tradition of hermeneutic and phenomenological studies of science. It focuses on the ways in which scientific research is committed to the universe of interpretative phenomena. It treats scientific research by addressing its characteristic hermeneutic situations, and uses the following basic argument in this treatment: By demonstrating that science’s epistemological identity is not to be spelled out in terms of objectivism, mathematical essentialism, representationalism, and foundationalism, one undermines scientism without succumbing scientific research to “procedures of normative-democratic control” that threaten science’s cognitive autonomy. The study shows that in contrast to social constructivism, hermeneutic phenomenology of scientific research makes the case that overcoming scientism does not imply restrictive policies regarding the constitution of scientific objects.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introductory Chapter: On the Very Idea of Hermeneutic Realism....Pages 1-61
The Production of Objectified Factuality Within the Facticity of Scientific Inquiry....Pages 63-156
Intermediate Reflections: Reflexivity in Scientific Inquiry and Empirical Ontologies of Hybrid Objects....Pages 157-179
Meaningful Articulation and Objectification of Reality in Scientific Inquiry....Pages 181-252
Concluding Chapter: “Texts”, Relevant Contexts, and Textualizing....Pages 253-269
Back Matter....Pages 271-291

✦ Subjects

Phenomenology;Science Education;Methodology of the Social Sciences