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This collection of essays explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates.
List of contents
Introduction: Hermeneutics in the Wake of The Interpretive Turn
Michiel Meijer
Part I: American Case Studies
1. Worldmaking in the Social Sciences: Double-Hermeneutic Effects, As-If Scenarios, and Narrative Causality
Jason Blakely
2. Hermeneutics and Polarized Identities
Georgia Warnke
Part II: Non-Relativist, Realist, and Non-Anthropocentric Approaches
3. A Hermeneutics of Dialogical Understanding in the "Post-Truth" Era: Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics
Hanna Meretoja
4. What Is Interpretive Metaethics and Why Do We Need It?
Michiel Meijer
5. "How Other Kinds of Beings See Us Matters": On the Scope of Interpretation
Arne Johan Vetlesen
Part III: Interpretation as Practice
6. Hermeneutics as a Metaphilosophy and a Philosophy of Work
Nicholas H. Smith
7. Hermeneutics and Testimony: On Selfhood and the Constitution of the Social Bond
Gert-Jan van der Heiden
8. Measurement, Hermeneutics, and Standardization: Why Gadamerian Hermeneutics is Necessary to Contemporary Philosophy of Science
Leah McClimans
Index
About the author
Michiel Meijer is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp. His recent publications include "Articulating Better, Being Better: Ethical Emancipation and the Sources of Motivation." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2022) 25:1, 107–122 and "Clarifying Moral Clarification: On Taylor’s Contribution to Metaethics." International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2021) 29:5, 705–722.
Summary
This collection of essays explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates.
