27-30 September 2000, Vienna, AUSTRIA, 4S/EASST Conference
Sessions on “Hermeneutics and Science”
Hermeneutics vs. Systems Approaches to Science and Technology
Session Organisers: Ropolyi, Laszlo; Kiss, Olga
9:00 - 10:30
Session 01: Hermeneutics vs. Social Constructivist Approach to Science and Technology - Philosophical Background I
Chair: Ropolyi, Laszlo
- Ihde, Don; Pinch, Trevor J.: Confronting Hermeneutic and Social Constructivist Ideas - Moog, MIDI and More: Electronic Music
- Fjelland, Ragnar: Science: Modern and Postmodern
11:00 - 12:30
Session 02: Hermeneutics vs. Social Constructivist Approach to Science and Technology - Philosophical Background II
- Margitay, Tihamér: Hermeneutics and Criticism
- Schulz, Reinhard: What is “Scientific Hermeneutics”?
- Kiss, Olga: Paradigm Theory and Hermeneutics of Science
- Toronyai, Gábor: Edmund Husserl‘s transcendental phenomenology and the idea of a Reintegration of the Sciences into Philosophy
2:30 - 4:00
Session 03: Hermeneutic vs. Social Constructivist Approach to Science and Technology - Case studies I
Chair: Kiss, Olga
- Crease, Robert P.: Solar Neutrinos Revisited
- Selinger, Evan: Laboratory Effects, Hermeneutics, and the Public Sphere
- Lijmbach, Susanne: Understanding Animal Feelings: Double Hermeneutics?
4:30 - 6:00
Session 04: Hermeneutic vs. Social Constructivist Approach to Science and Technology - Case studies II
Chair: Kiss, Olga
- Gremmen, Bart: Risky Hermeneutics: Interpreting the Precautionary Principle
- Jacobs, Josette: Sustainability or Sustainabilities?
- Ropolyi, László: Some Aspects of a Hermeneutic Concept of Information
- Kampis, George: Realism, Relativism, Constructivism