TY - BOOK ID - 16838841 TI - Ideas for a hermeneutic phenomenology of the natural sciences. 2 : On the importance of methodical hermeneutics for a hermeneutic phenomenology of the natural sciences PY - 2002 VL - 15 46 SN - 1402006500 9401039186 9401003793 9781402006500 PB - Dordrecht Kluwer DB - UniCat KW - Science KW - Hermeneutics KW - Phenomenology KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy and science. KW - Modern philosophy. KW - Ontology. KW - History. KW - Philosophy of Science. KW - Modern Philosophy. KW - History, general. KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Being KW - Metaphysics KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Substance (Philosophy) KW - Modern philosophy KW - Science and philosophy KW - Science - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16838841 AB - Ideas for Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Natural Sciences (published in 1993 as volume 15 of this series) comprised mainly ontological reflections on the natural sciences. That book explained why the natural sciences must be considered inherently interpretive in character, and clarified the conditions under which scientific interpretations are "legitimate" and may be called "true". This companion volume focuses on methodological issues. Its first part elucidates the methodical hermeneutics developed in the 19th century by Boeckh, Birt, Dilthey, and others. Its second part, through the use of concrete examples drawn from modern physics as it unfolded from Copernicus to Maxwell, clarifies and "proves" the main points of the ontologico-hermeneutical conception of the sciences elaborated in the earlier volume. It thereby both illuminates the most important problems confronting an ontologico-phenomenological approach to the natural sciences and offers an alternative to Kuhn's conception of the historical development of the natural sciences. ER -