Ideas for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Natural Sciences

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1: Notes on the History of the Philosophy of Science.
• §1. Kant and the Kantian Tradition.
• §2. The Empiricist Tradition Since Herschel and Mill.
• §3. On the Origin of Conventionalism.
• §4. Leading Schools and Trends in Philosophy of Science Today.
• §5. Philosophy of Science: The Place of Hermeneutic Phenomenology.
• 2: Hermeneutic Phenomenology on the Meaning and Function of Philosophy.
• §1. Philosophy as a Critical Reflection on the Meaning of Being Which Takes its Starting Point in an Analytic of Man’s Mode of Being.
• §2. The Historical Character of Philosophy.
• §3. Philosophy as Critical Reflection on Man’s Experiences.
• §4. Concluding Remarks.
• 3: Basic Issues for an Ontology of the Natural Sciences.
• §1. On the Hermeneutic Dimensions of the Natural Sciences.
• §2. On the Problem of Truth in the Sciences.
• §3. On Myth and Science. Some Hermeneutical Reflections.
• 4: Critical Discussion of Some Basic Issues Raised in the Logic, Epistemology, History, and Ontology of the Natural Sciences.
• §1. On Stegmüller’s Critical Analysis of the Logico- Empiricist Debate About the Relationship Between Theory and Experience.
• §2. On Induction: Popper and Hempel.
• §3. On the Meaning of Scientific Revolutions.
• §4. Reflections on Lakatos’ Methodology of Scientific Research Programs.
• §5. Hübner on the Nature of the Theories Developed in Physics.
• §6. Beyond Realism and Idealism. A Response to Patrick Heelan.
• 5: Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of the History of the Natural Sciences.
• §1. Three Views on the Historicity of the History of Science.
• §2. Critical Reflections.
• Index of Names.
• Index of Terms.