TY - BOOK AU - Bernstein,Richard J TI - Beyond objectivism and relativism: science, hermeneutics, and praxis SN - 9780812211658 AV - BD241 .B496 1983 PY - 1983/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Hermeneutics KW - Science KW - Philosophy KW - Objectivity KW - Relativity KW - Practice (Philosophy) KW - Hermeneutik KW - Objektivismus KW - Relativismus KW - Wissenschaft N1 - 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; 1 UR - http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780812279061.pdf UR - http://library.ccsu.edu/help/spcoll/oconnell/Beyond%20Objectivism%20and%20Relativism.pdf UR - http://library.ccsu.edu/help/spcoll/oconnell/index.htm ER -