Hermeneutics and Science

by Marta Feher

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792357981
• ISBN13: 9780792357988
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"