The tenets of hermeneutical realism
Journal title EPISTEMOLOGIA
Author/s Dimitri Ginev
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2012/2 Language English
Pages 17 P. 264-280 File size 614 KB
DOI 10.3280/EPIS2012-002007
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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.
Keywords: Hermeneutic construal of the world, internalism-externalism dichotomy, scheme-content dualism, interpretative constitution of meaning, trans-subjectivity.
Dimitri Ginev, The tenets of hermeneutical realism in "EPISTEMOLOGIA" 2/2012, pp 264-280, DOI: 10.3280/EPIS2012-002007