1994, Budapest

EASST European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
Conference on Science, Technology and Change: New Theories, Realities, Institutions
Budapest, Hungary, August 28-31, 1994

Science and Society: A Hermeneutic Perspective

(Session organizers/ Chairs: László Ropolyi & Olga Kiss)

9-10:30

  • István M. Fehér: Opening Address
  • Karl-Otto Apel: The Self-Taking-Up (Selbsteinholungsprinzip) of Hermeneutic Reconstruction of History
  • Theodore Kisiel: Hermeneutics of Scientific Discovery, Prospective and retrospective
  • István M. Fehér: Hermeneutics and Social Science
  • Reinhard Schulz: Helmhotz and Gadamer: Provocation and Solidarity. On the Generation of Hermeneutics in the Spirit of Science

Coffee break

11-12:30

  • Babette Babich: The Hermeneutics of Natural Science: From Nietzsche to Heidegger
  • Enrico Giannetto: Notes on Physics, Technics and the Social Context
  • Panayiotis Theodorou: Thought Experiments: Meaning Experiences, Differences and Hermeneia
  • Robert P. Crease: The Hermeneutics of Technique
  • Alexander A. Pechenkin: Could Husserl’s Ideas on Foundation of Science Be Developed in the Contemporary Philosophy of Science?

Lunch

14-15:30

  • Ljubova Moreva: Poetics of Science
  • Ferenc Vidor: Science in Arts, Arts in Science
  • Michael I. Mikeshin: Context Hermeneutics and a Personal Scientist’s Image of the World
  • Martin Eger: Natural Science and Self Understanding
  • George Kampis: Casual Interpretation
  • Bart Gremmen: Scientific Objects and the “Double Hermeneutic”

Coffee break

16-17:30

  • Antonino Drago: L. Carnot’s Theory of Machines as the Alternative Theory to the Newtonian Paradigm
  • Olga Kiss: Understanding and Interpretation in Set Theory
  • Ladiszlaw Kvasz: A Similarity Between Galilean and Pythagorean Scientific Program
  • Susanne Lijmbach: Heidegger and the World of Animals
  • Tibor Schwendtner - László Ropolyi: Some Problems of Quantum Mechanics from a Hermeneutic Perspective
  • Josette Jacobs: “A Feelingfor the Organism” and Hermeneutical Practice
  • Márta Vinkovics: The “Thinking Intuition” - or the Thouhts of A.V. Humboldt on Epistemology and Scientific Philosophy