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Beyond objectivism and relativism : science, hermeneutics, and praxis / Richard J. Bernstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, (c)1983.Description: xix, 284 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780812211658
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD241 .B496 1983
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Contents:
Objectivism and relativism -- The Cartesian anxiety -- Postempiricist philosophy and history of science -- The idea of a social science -- The recovery of the hermeneutical dimension of science -- Philosophic hermeneutics : a primordial mode of being -- Hermeneutics and praxis -- Political judgment and practical discourse -- Science, hermeneutics, and praxis
The practical rationality of theory-choice -- Kuhn and his critics : the common ground -- The development of the philosophy of science -- Incommensurability and the natural sciences -- Incommensurability and the social disciplines
The Cartesian legacy -- Truth and the experience of art -- Understanding and prejudice ; The hermeneutical circle -- Temporal distance, effective-historical consciousness, and the fusion of horizons -- Application : the rediscovery of the fundamental hermeneutical problem -- The movement beyond philosophic hermeneutics -- Philosophic hermeneutics and the Cartesian anxiety
A historical interlude -- Practical discourse -- Habermas -- Rorty's metacritique -- Judgment : Arendt -- Beyond objectivism and relativism -- the practical task
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Withdrawn G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN Non-fiction BD241.B531.B496 1983 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 31923000574257

Part I. Beyond objectivism and relativism : an overview. -- Objectivism and relativism -- The Cartesian anxiety -- Postempiricist philosophy and history of science -- The idea of a social science -- The recovery of the hermeneutical dimension of science -- Philosophic hermeneutics : a primordial mode of being -- Hermeneutics and praxis -- Political judgment and practical discourse -- Science, hermeneutics, and praxis

Part II. Science, rationality, and incommensurability. -- The practical rationality of theory-choice -- Kuhn and his critics : the common ground -- The development of the philosophy of science -- Incommensurability and the natural sciences -- Incommensurability and the social disciplines

Part III. From hermeneutics to praxis. -- The Cartesian legacy -- Truth and the experience of art -- Understanding and prejudice ; The hermeneutical circle -- Temporal distance, effective-historical consciousness, and the fusion of horizons -- Application : the rediscovery of the fundamental hermeneutical problem -- The movement beyond philosophic hermeneutics -- Philosophic hermeneutics and the Cartesian anxiety

Part IV. Praxis, practical discourse, and judgment. -- A historical interlude -- Practical discourse -- Habermas -- Rorty's metacritique -- Judgment : Arendt -- Beyond objectivism and relativism -- the practical task

Appendix: A letter by Professor Hans-Georg Gadamer.

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