Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1999
Pages: 143-168
Series: Continental Philosophy Review
Full citation:
, "On the hermeneutic fore-structure of scientific research", Continental Philosophy Review 32 (2), 1999, pp. 143-168.
On the hermeneutic fore-structure of scientific research
pp. 143-168
in: Continental Philosophy Review 32 (2), 1999.Abstract
The paper provides an overview of the hermeneutic and phenomenological context from which the idea of a "constitutional analysis" of science originated. It analyzes why the approach to "hermeneutic fore-structure of scientific research" requires to transcend the distinction between the context of justification and the context of discovery. By incorporating this approach into an integral "postmetaphysical philosophy of science", I argue that one can avoid the radical empiricism of recent science studies, while also preventing the analysis of science's discursive practices from collapsing into the frames of radical anti-epistemological critique mandated by some hermeneutic philosophers.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1999
Pages: 143-168
Series: Continental Philosophy Review
Full citation:
, "On the hermeneutic fore-structure of scientific research", Continental Philosophy Review 32 (2), 1999, pp. 143-168.