Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Science and method : Towards hermeneutic phenomenology of social science Toward an interpretative or hermeneutic social science ........25 Quantum mechanics and the social sciences..................51 A critical hermeneutics of Agency : Cultural studies as critical social theory ...............63 Overcoming naturalism from within: dilthey, nature, and the human science ......89 Hermeneutics from the inside out and the outside in-and how postmodernism blew it all wide open ...........109 2. Reflexive and relational hermeneutics The sciences of subjectivity ....123 Studies of Empirical ontology and ontological Difference...............143 Hermeneutics and its discontents in philosophy of Science: On bruno latour , the science wars, Mockery, and immortal models .........163 On the importance of getting things straight ............189 Hans-george gadamer`s concept of the horizon and its ethico-political critique...............199 3. Practice and application : Hermenutics, social theory Gadamer`s hermeneutics as practical Philosophy................219 The new sociology of knowledge ........237 Taking plurality seriously with michel de certeau: from history to reception sociolinguistics.............267 Pragmatism and hermeneutics...............287 Make it scientific : Theories of education from Dewey to gadamer ...........295 4. Truth and life : Life-Philosophy and history, psychology and theology The hermenutical human and social sciences........315 Life, metaphysics, history : Reflections on the contemporary relevance of dilthey`s philosophy of life ..............341 Four fundamental aspects of the reversal of platonism ...........357 Heidegger:Hermeneutics as Preparation for thinking ..............373 Hermeneutic reflections on descartes introduction to his meditations on First philosophy..........387