Ontological Difference and Indeterminacy of Interpretation

Empirical Adequacy ◽

Ontological Difference ◽

At issue in this paper is the unfinished dialogue between hermeneutic phenomenology and hermeneutic logic. The paper touches upon two historical contexts of this dialogue. In scrutinizing them I discuss the relationship between philosophical hermeneutics and non-representationalist epistemology. The view gets spelled out that the norms of truthfulness, objectivity, empirical adequacy, and other epistemological characteristics of interpretation become generated within characteristic hermeneutic situations. By elaborating on Heidegger’s nexus between projected understanding and interpretative articulation, the notion of hermeneutic forestructuring of interpretative practices is introduced. Scrutinizing this notion allows one to circumscribe characteristic hermeneutic situations.El tema de este artículo es el diálogo inacabado entre la fenomenología hermenéutica y la lógica hermenéutica. El artículo toma dos contextos históricos de este diálogo. Al investigarlos, discuto la relación entre la hermenéutica filosófica y la epistemología no-representacionalista. Esta visión explica que las normas de veracidad, la objetividad, la adecuación empírica y otras características epistemológicas de la interpretación llegan a generarse dentro de situaciones hermenéuticas características. Al elaborar el nexo de Heidegger entre la comprensión proyectada y la articulación interpretativa, se introduce la noción de preestructuración hermenéutica de las prácticas interpretativas. Investigar esta noción permite circunscribir situaciones hermenéuticas características.

Der Begriff ,Austrag‘ als Bestimmung des Seins bei Martin Heidegger

Phänomenologische Forschungen ◽

10.28937/1000107783 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 (1) ◽

pp. 205-216

Author(s):

Ales Novák

Keyword(s):

Martin Heidegger ◽

Ontological Difference ◽

Relationship Of ◽

In the late 1950sHeidegger revived the notion of the ,ontological difference‘, which he considered to be the constitution for the meaning of both ,being‘ (Sein) and the ,entity‘ (Seiendes). The unifying process of this constitution bore the name ,discharge‘ (Austrag) and expressed the dynamic, static, and generic features of ,being‘. But even this new description means only the designation for the primordial unconcealedness (Unverborgenheit), which according to Heidegger is the ,matter of thinking‘ (Sache des Denkens). And again, Heidegger brings just another notion to express that the ,nearness‘ as the comprising meaning of presence (Anwesen) is the true name for ,world‘. Thus, Heideggers notions for ,being‘ as presence, ,staying dwelling‘, ,enowing‘ (Ereignis), and ,discharge‘ speak about his turning away from thinking of ,being‘(ontology) and his turning towards ,topology‘, where the relationship of ,world and thing‘ is preferred to the ,ontological difference‘ between ,being‘ and the ,entity‘.

Introduction

The Art of Mystical Narrative ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199948635.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 3-53

Author(s):

Eitan P. Fishbane

Keyword(s):

Thirteenth Century ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Holy Land ◽

Literary Art ◽

The first chapter sets the stage for the broader project of the book; it begins with the idea that the Zohar may be approached as a classic of literary art, probing how the term “classic” has been used in the study of religion and philosophical hermeneutics. I will delve into the following issues: the contours of a literary approach to the Zohar and its relationship to the evolution of zoharic authorship and redaction theory; explore the nexus of mysticism and literature (both narrative and poetry) in comparative perspective; address the relationship between fiction, imagined history, and the merging of time between the medieval and (imagined) ancient periods; and explore the manner in which the Zohar operates with a diasporic-exilic consciousness, imagining the Holy Land from the distance of thirteenth-century Castile.

The tenets of hermeneutical realism

EPISTEMOLOGIA ◽

10.3280/epis2012-002007 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 264-280

Author(s):

Dimitri Ginev

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of Science ◽

Social Constructivism ◽

Cartesian Dualism ◽

Context Sensitive ◽

Hermeneutic Philosophy ◽

Theory Of Meaning ◽

Cognitive Relativism ◽

Holistic Epistemology

This article explores and attempts to resolve some issues that arise when at stake is the need to harmonize philosophical hermeneutics with a kind of realist philosophy of science. The author takes issue with established position in the realism-antirealism controversy. Interventionism is criticized for a residual Cartesian dualism. Cognitive relativism is debated by developing a concept of situated transcendence in the constitution of objects of inquiry. Non-behaviorist arguments against scheme-content dualism are advanced that appeal to context- sensitive theory of meaning. Social constructivism is rejected for the hypostatization of epistemic positions. The article suggests a model of the constitution of meaning. It undertakes an attempt at demonstrating how the integration of this model in a hermeneutic philosophy of science leads to realism without epistemological representationalism, foundationalism, and cognitive essentialism. The article is oriented toward a new dialogue between hermeneutic phenomenology and a holistic epistemology.

Some methodological aspects of personality education

Pedagogy and Psychology ◽

10.51889/2021-1.2077-6861.06 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 48-54

Author(s):

A. Iskakova ◽

Keyword(s):

Educational Practice ◽

Learning Technologies ◽

Modern Education ◽

New Learning ◽

Education Today ◽

Methodological Problems ◽

Methodological Aspects ◽

The Relationship ◽

Missing Element

Theoretical and methodological problems of modern education and upbringing arouse deep interest and continue to remain highly relevant at the present time, when the issues of the content of education, the need to search for its qualitative originality and compliance with new learning technologies caused by the pandemic are of particular importance. This article identifies and expands the relationship between philosophical hermeneutics and education, emphasizes that philosophical hermeneutics has everything necessary to determine the goal of education and forms the basis for formulating the main tasks that need to be solved at present time, it is noted in the paper the lack of attention to the research of philosophy of education as a vital missing element in the study and practice of modern education today. The author seeks to represent the humanistic character and philosophical status of knowledge that underlie historical educational practice.

Understanding Gadamer

Dialogue ◽

10.1017/s0012217300006739 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 827-833

Author(s):

Robert Wicks

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

North American ◽

Colleges And Universities ◽

The Enlightenment ◽

Profound Influence ◽

Fourth Volume ◽

The Relationship ◽

Hans Georg Gadamer

The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer, edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, the twenty-fourth volume in the “Library of Living Philosophers”—a series founded in 1938 by Paul Arthur Schlipp, the aim of which has been to represent some of the world's greatest living philosphers. In keeping with this tradition, the 600-page Gadamer volume contains an invaluable and lengthy autobiographical sketch by Gadamer himself, long with wide-ranging critical and interpretive essays by twenty-nine scholars. The essays address the foundations of philosophical hermeneutics, the significance of beauty, art, and aesthetics to hermeneutic theory, theSocratic-Platonic sources of Gadamer's outlook, the relationship between Gadamer's hermeneutics and the characteristic perspectives of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, questions concerning Gadamer'sconnection to political affairs in twentieth-century Germany, and the nuances of Martin Heidegger's profound influence on Gadamer's thought. The essays divide evenly into those which take issue with Gadamer and those which interpretively and sympathetically elaborate on Gadamerian themes. Of the twenty-nine authors, twenty-six were teaching at North American colleges and universities at the time of writing.

What Do You Read When You Read a Religious Text?

Religion and Theology ◽

10.1163/15743012-02203011 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 22 (3-4) ◽

pp. 187-218 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gerhard van den Heever

Keyword(s):

Social Discourse ◽

Biblical Hermeneutics ◽

Critical Questions ◽

The Past ◽

Religious Text ◽

Key Characteristics ◽

Theories Of Religion ◽

Open Question ◽

In this essay some key characteristics of contemporary discourse on biblical hermeneutics and philosophical hermeneutics are identified. A redescriptive archaeology of hermeneutics is suggested. The key characteristics of hermeneutics are re-interpreted and critiqued in light of recent theories of religion and history. There are three domains of critical questions at issue in the open question posed to the practice of hermeneutics, namely 1) redescriptive theorising of religion as a social discourse; 2) the materiality of the tradition; and 3) revisioning history and the relationship to the past.

Bonhoeffer’s Hermeneutic Theology

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christian Humanism ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198832560.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 148-182

Author(s):

Jens Zimmermann

Keyword(s):

Human Experience ◽

John Webster ◽

Philosophical Hermeneutics

Chapter 5 explains and delineates the fundamentally hermeneutic quality of Bonhoeffer’s theology or what may be called his Christological hermeneutic. The chapter begins by describing Bonhoeffer’s hermeneutic consciousness evident from structural similarities between philosophical hermeneutics and hermeneutic elements in his early works. It then describes Bonhoeffer’s Christ-Reality as the hermeneutical circle that grounds his participatory ontology and enables a hermeneutic phenomenology, i.e., a fundamentally interpretive stance toward human experience. This hermeneutic stance is then illustrated by the concept of simple minded obedience of discipleship, exemplified by the unified self, described in the previous chapter. Contrary to critics like John Webster, Bonhoeffer deliberately combines single-minded obedience with the need for hermeneutical discernment. The final sections of this chapter further deepen the hermeneutics of discipleship as engaged knowing by describing the importance of the incarnational structure of manger, cross, and resurrection together with the eschatological structure of ultimate-penultimate things for Bonhoeffer’s Christological hermeneutic. Both structures determine the interpretive discernment required for striving to live a Christ-shaped life characterized by the kind of freedom Bonhoeffer calls “realistic responsibility.”

Many Worlds and Such

The Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198844686.003.0010 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 162-189

Author(s):

Jeffrey A. Barrett

Keyword(s):

Quantum Mechanics ◽

Physical Theory ◽

Empirical Adequacy ◽

Wave Mechanics ◽

Many Worlds ◽

Standard Quantum ◽

Information Theoretic ◽

Quantum Probabilities ◽

The Relationship ◽

Pure Wave Mechanics

We consider a number of radically different ways that Everett’s pure wave mechanics has been understood. Each of these reconstructions aims to provide a stronger variety of empirical adequacy than Everett’s own formulation of the theory. Among the alternative formulations of quantum mechanics we consider are splitting worlds, decohering worlds, many minds, many threads, and many maps. Each of these differs in its metaphysical commitments and, hence, in how it explains determinate measurement records and probabilities. We focus, in particular, on the problem of accounting for the standard quantum probabilities. To this end, we consider the relationship between typicality and probability and contrast synchronic and forward-looking probabilities. We conclude with a brief discussion of epistemological, pragmatic, and information-theoretic formulations of quantum mechanics. A recurring issue in this chapter concerns what it should mean for a physical theory to be empirically adequate.

The Work of Hermeneutic Phenomenology

International Journal of Qualitative Methods ◽

10.1177/1609406920947600 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 160940692094760

Author(s):

Kitty Maria Suddick ◽

Vinette Cross ◽

Pirjo Vuoskoski ◽

Kathleen T. Galvin ◽

Graham Stew

Keyword(s):

Phenomenological Study ◽

Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study

Hermeneutic Circle ◽

Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽

Theory Of Meaning ◽

Practical Guidance ◽

Theoretical Frame ◽

Research Praxis ◽

This paper is an illustration of the application of a hermeneutic phenomenological study. The theory of meaning and interpretation, drawing on philosophical hermeneutics and the work of Gadamer and Heidegger, and its alignment with phenomenological thought is presented. The paper explains and aims to make visible how key concerns in relation to the fusion of horizons, hermeneutic understanding, hermeneutic circle and hermeneutic phenomenological attitude were implemented. The purpose is to provide practical guidance and illustrate a fully worked up example of hermeneutic phenomenological work as research praxis. This present paper makes a case that hermeneutic phenomenological work is detailed, lengthy, rigorous and systematic in its own philosophical and theoretical frame. It articulates the philosophical and methodological alignment of hermeneutics in a specific hermeneutic phenomenological study and makes visible the work of hermeneutic phenomenology. It concludes by sharing key reflections and insights on the hermeneutic phenomenological process.

Still Here: Miscarriage and the Ontology of the Silent Cradle

Culture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies ◽

10.1177/1532708619885405 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 16-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joyce Engel

Keyword(s):

The Relationship ◽

Inside Out ◽

Inherent Ambiguity ◽

The Invisible ◽

Invisible Network

This hermeneutic phenomenology explicates the experience of miscarriage through prose and the poetry that emerged from research conversations with nine women. The Baby Has a Name articulates the physicality and relational presence of the fetus and Painful Reminders the pain as the womb turns inside out. What Did I Do expresses the struggle to explain what is often unexplainable and Claiming the Loss the difficult acknowledgment of loss marked by inherent ambiguity and social asphyxiation. Others who have miscarried (The Invisible Network) offer comfort but the relationship with their baby can only be fully carried by these women (Still Here).