Heelan, Patrick A: Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science.
University of California Press (Publisher’s page: UCP with Google book search >>>)
“Professor Heelan’s book may well be the most substantial contribution yet made by the phenomenological/hermeneutical tradition to the understanding of science. Its primary aim is to show how, starting in the fifteenth century, certain artifacts were introduced to the European lifeworld which gradually restructured spatial perception so as to make the emergence of the scientific world view in the seventeenth century a natural outcome. Its secondary aim is to serve as an exemplar for systematic research in the philosophy of science that stands clearly outside the purview of the dominant analytical/positivist schools.”(Steve Fuller)
Joseph J. Kockelmans: Ideas for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Natural Sciences: Volume II: On the Importance of the Methodical Hermeneutics for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology … Sciences (Contributions To Phenomenology) Springer, 2002
Joseph J. Kockelmans: Ideas for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Natural Sciences (Contributions To Phenomenology) Springer, 1993
Joseph J. Kockelmans - Theodore Kisiel: Phenomenology and the Natural Sciences (SPEP)Northwestern University Press, 1986
Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God: Essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan, S.J. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science), Springer, 2002
Editorial Review:
“This richly textured book bridges analytic and hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophy of science, featuring unique resources for students of the philosophy and history of quantum mechanics and the Copenhagen Interpretation, cognitive theory and the psychology of perception, the history and philosophy of art, and the pragmatic and historical relationships between religion and science. Of special interest is the new technology of variational graphic representations with the insights (and mathematical apparatus) of Patrick Heelan’s work on the perception of space and the history of art, particularly the work of Cézanne and Van Gogh.
This book will interest students of the scientific philosophies of Heisenberg and Bohr, Wittgenstein (on science - Hertz - and on religion - Rush Rhees), as well as the social histories of Thomas Kuhn and Ludwig Fleck, and the philosophical insights of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Foucault, and including pragmatism and the contemporary Thomism of Bernard Longeran.”
Don Ihde: Experimental Phenomenology: An Introduction, State University of New York Press, 1986
Don Ihde: Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science, Northwestern University Press, 1999
Don Ihde: Bodies in Technology (Electronic Mediations, V. 5) University of Minnesota Press, 2001
Eger, Martin: Science, Understanding, and Justice: The Philosophical Essays of Martin Eger (edited by Abner Shimony), Open Court , 2006
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis, University of Pennsylvania Press 1993
Dimitri Ginev: A Passage To The Idea For A Hermeneutic Philosophy Of Science.(Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 53) Rodopi Bv Editions, 1997
“In this book the author has brought together his long-standing interests in theory of scientific rationality and hermeneutic ontology by developing a hermeneutic alternative to analytic (and naturalist) epistemology of science.
The “hermeneutic philosophy of science” is less the name of a new field of philosophical than a demand for a “repetition of the basic philosophical questions of science” from hermeneutic point of view. The book addresses chiefly two subjects: (I) The hermeneutic response to the models of rational reconstruction of scientific knowledge; (II) The specificity of hermeneutico-ontological approach to the cognitive pluralism in science.”(Editorial Review)
Dimitri Ginev: The Context of Constitution: Beyond the Edge of Epistemological Justification (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) Springer, 2006
Kah Kyung Cho (Editor): Philosophy and Science in Phenomenological Perspective (Phaenomenologica), Springer, 1984
Fehér Márta, Kiss Olga, Ropolyi László (eds): Hermeneutics and Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Now: Spinger) 1999
Hermeneutics was elaborated as a specific art of understanding in humanities. The discovered paradigmatic, historical characteristics of scientific knowledge, and the role of rhetoric, interpretation and contextuality enabled us to use similar arguments in natural sciences too. In this way a new research field, the hermeneutics of science emerged based upon the works of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger and Gadamer.
A dialogue between philosophers and scientists begins in this volume on hermeneutic approaches to physics, biology, ethology, mathematics and cognitive science. Scientific principles, methodologies, discourse, language, and metaphors are analyzed, as well as the role of the lay public and the legitimation of science. Different hermeneutical-phenomenological approaches to perception, experiments, methods, discovery and justification and the genesis of science are presented. Hermeneutics shed a new light on the incommensurability of paradigms, the possibility of translation and the historical understanding of science.
Robert P. Crease (Editor): Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences, Springer 1997
Editorial Review:
“This remarkable volume attests to the world-wide development of a hermeneutical approach to the natural sciences. Questions raised by the essays include: What is a phenomenology of `scientific’ perception? How does meaning arise out of laboratory situations? How do individuals or groups come to terms with the particular problem situations in which they find themselves by drawing on the available conceptual and practical resources which structure these situations?
The essays are organized around three central themes. One group of authors (Heelan, Kockelmans, and Gremmen/Jacobs) recalls and applies existing historical resources of hermeneutical phenomenology to current scientific and social issues. A second group (Kisiel, Eger) considers the differences between a specifically hermeneutical approach to science and related approaches such as cultural studies and social constructivism. A third group (Ihde, Gendlin) seeks to forge new directions and tools for understanding natural scientific practice.
As Crease’s introductory essay makes plain, the authors share the commitment of hermeneutical philosophy to the priority of meaning over technique, the primacy of the practical over the theoretical, and the priority of situation over abstract formulation. In the process, the authors revive and transform the ancient Greek idea that the key to living well, to being fully and authentically human, resides primarily in the exercise of the practical not the theoretical virtues, in the art of doing well in the workworld and acting well in the polis.”
Joseph J. Kockelmans: Heidegger and Science (Current Continental Research) Univ Pr of Amer,1985
Stephen Hilgartner: Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama (Writing Science), Stanford University Press, 2000
Dimitri Ginev: Essays in the Hermeneutics of Science (Avebury Series in Philosophy), Ashgate 1997
Hermeneutics Versus Science: 3 German Views (Revisions) University of Notre Dame Press, 1988