The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism

In The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism, Dimitri Ginev draws on devel-opments in hermeneutic phenomenology and other programs in hermeneutic philosophy to inform an interpretative approach to scientific practices. At stake is the question of whether it is possible to integrate forms of reflection upon the ontological difference in the cognitive structure of scientific research. A positive answer would have implied a proof that ( paceHeidegger) ;science is able to think. ; This book is an extended version of such a proof. Against those who claim that modern science is doomed to be exclusively committed to the nexus of objectivism and instrumental rationality, the interpretative theory of scientific practices reveals science's potentiality of hermeneutic self-reflection. Scientific research that takes into consideration the ontological difference has resources to enter into a dialogue with Nature. Ginev offers a critique of postmodern tendencies in the philosophy of science, and sets out arguments for a feminist hermeneutics of scientific research.

Dimitri Ginev is a leading scholar of Continental philosophy of science and Professor for Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science and Hermeneutic Theory of Culture at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He is the author of many articles and a dozen books in German, English, and French, some of which develop his original perspective on the hermeneutics of science.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Hermeneutic versus Objectivist Construal of the "World	p. xi
Constitutional Analysis of Meaning and Scientific Practices	p. XX
Synopsis	p. xxv
Rereading Heidegger's Existential Conception of Science	p. I
Scientific Research as a Mode of Being-in-the-World	p. 1
Is the Existential Conception of Science a Kind of Philosophy of Science?	p. 7
Steps in Overcoming Mathematical Essentialism	p. 11
ReadingùRepresentingùTextualizing	p. 17
A Note on Self-Referentiality	p. 21
Cognitive Existentialism and Science's Theoretical Objects	p. 23
Essentialist and Existentialist Perspectives on the Distinction between Theoretical and Nontheoretical Objects	p. 23
A Note on the Visualizability of Science's Theoretical Objects	p. 30
The Historical Background of Cognitive Existentialism vis-a-vis Science's Theoretical Objects	p. 34
Replacing the Epistemological Reconstruction of Science with a Hermeneutic Conception of Scientific Research	p. 40
Why Does Cognitive Existentialism Resist the Collapse into a New Sort of Essentialism?	p. 45
On the Notion of "Hermeneutic Fore-Structure"	p. 47
Cognitive Existentialism and Biological Research
The Notion of "Characteristic Hermeneutic Situation"	p. 65
From a Characteristic Hermeneutic Situation to a Thematizing Project	p. 71
Thematizing Projects of Biological Research	p. 77
A Note on Irreducibiliry and Complemencariry	p. 82
Nonreductionist Unity and Nonrelativist Disunity of Biology	p. 86
Cognitive Existentialism and Postmodern Philosophy of Science	p. 90
Introduction	p. 90
The Postmodern Destruction of the Legitimation Project of Modern Science	p. 96
From Deflationary Accounts of Knowledge to a Comprehensive Naturalism	p. 102
Basic Shortcomings of the Naturalistic-Deflationary Accounts of Scientific Knowledge	p. 107
Cognitive Existentialism and Feminist Philosophy of Science	p. 115
Introduction	p. 115
Why Not Standpoint Epistemology?	p. 118
Feminist Postmodernism and Feminist Cultural Studies of Science	p. 120
Gendered Constitution of Meaning and Gendered Identities	p. 132
Preliminary Remarks on the Role of Narratives in Expressing Gendered Identities in Scientific Research	p. 137
Cognitive Existentialism and the Critical Philosophy of Nature	p. 143
Introduction: Politics of Nature versus Political Ecology	p. 143
Marcuse's "New Science"	p. 146
Extending the Scope of Cognitive Existentialism	p. 150
Characteristic Hermeneutic Situations in the Dialogue with Nature	p. 155
Epilogue	p. 101
Notes	p. 163
References	p. 185
Index	p. 195
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