Hermeneutics and Science

Introduction; D. Føllesdal. Opening Address: Hermeneutics and the Sciences; I.M. Fehér. 1: Philosophical Analyses. Perceptual Reasoning - Hermeneutics and Perception; D. Ihde. Productive Objectivity: The Hermeneutics of Performance in Experimental Inquiry; R.P. Crease. Parallelen zwischen Heideggers and Kuhns Wissenschaftsauffassung; T. Schwendtner. Kuhn, Scheler and the Revolutionary Genesis of Modern Science; G. Toronyai. Worum geht es in den Naturwissenschaften? M. Vajda. Interfaciology; O.E. Rössler. Friction of Bodies, Friction of Minds; Á. Heller. 2: History of Science. Wissenschaftsgeschichte als hermenutisches Problem; K.-O. Apel. Accomplishing Translation: The Notion of Evidence in the Discipline of the History of Science; G.L. Hardcastle. Meaningful Mistakes; O. Kiss. Incommensurability as a Bound of Hermeneutics in Science; A. Drago. 3: Scientific Aspects. The Hermeneutics of Life; G. Kampis. Was heißt Biologie verstehen? Vorüberlegungen zu einer hermeneutischen Biologie; R. Schulz. The Brain as a Hermeneutic Device; P. Érdi, I. Aradi. A Hermeneutical Ethology? S. Lijmbach. Heidegger and the Question of Physics; E. Giannetto. To What Extent Does Formal Teleology Still Make Sense? M. Stöltzner. 4: Language, Rhetoric, Community. The Changing of the Role Accorded to the Lay Public in Science; M. Fehér. To Eliminate Human Discourse by Means of the Metaphysical Language of Things; L. Fekete. Language and the Double Hermeneutic in Natural Science; M. Eger. Science, Hermeneutics, and Metaphorical Thought; M.J. Zenzen. 5: Philosophy of Science.Hermeneutics and Natural Science; D. Føllesdal. The Difference between Science and Hermeneutics: Habermas's Theory of the Necessarily Normative Nature of Linguistic Interpretation; D. Freundlieb. Against the Selfish Theory; L. Ropolyi. The Justification of the Application of Science; B. Gremmen. Value-Free Worlds and Value-Imposing Minds. Representational Practices and the Constructivist Argument; L.I. Komlósi. Closing Address: Expanding Hermeneutics; D. Ihde. List of Participants.