The Problem of Objectivity in Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Light of McDowell's Empiricism

• Main Author: Thaning, Morten S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Contributions to Hermeneutics ; 1
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ontology.; Philosophy of mind.; Phenomenology.; Philosophy of Mind.

This book reassesses Gadamer’s hermeneutics by bringing it into a dialogue with John McDowell’s minimal empiricism. It employs the resources of McDowell’s minimal empiricism to address the transcendental and ontological presuppositions for objective experience and understanding, while retaining Gada...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction. Reconstructing philosophical hermeneutics
• Chapter 2: The lack of objectivity in postmodern hermeneutics
• Chapter 3: The Socratic paradigm of objectivity
• Chapter 4: Perceptual experience and the ontology of self-presentation
• Chapter 5: Historical and situated objectivity: Tradition and phronēsis
• Chapter 6: Hermeneutic meaning and apophantic alienation.