Methodology and Truth: Analogies Between Hermeneutics and Post-Positivist Philosophy of Science1

For a long time-maybe starting from the well known 1929 meeting in Davos-the philosophy of exact and natural sciences deriving from Neo-positivism and hermeneutics followed separate ways. Post-positivistic philosophy of science and epistemology, though, saw the emerging of theses showing the existen...

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Published in:Journal of philosophy (Charlottesville, Va.) Va.), 2009-04, Vol.4 (9), p.12
Main Author: Parrini, Paolo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Gadamer, Hans Georg (1900-2002)
Natural sciences
Philosophy of science
Positivism
Truth
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Summary:For a long time-maybe starting from the well known 1929 meeting in Davos-the philosophy of exact and natural sciences deriving from Neo-positivism and hermeneutics followed separate ways. Post-positivistic philosophy of science and epistemology, though, saw the emerging of theses showing the existence of some affinities between the empirical method and the hermeneutical method. The paper singles these affinities out and discusses their consequences from the point of view of the problems of objectivity and truth. In particular, it supports the ideas of objectivity as achievement and of truth as empty regulative ideal. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:2072-036X
2154-1442