Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology

Carolyn Culbertson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2024
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9816-4 (ISBN)

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Explores Gadamer's hermeneutic theory of understanding and puts this theory into conversation with several social epistemologies, including feminist epistemology.

While some take Gadamer's Truth and Method to be a departure from epistemological questions and concerns, author Carolyn Culbertson reads Gadamer's work as offering a valuable reflection on the nature of understanding—one that is deeply resonant with the recent social turn in epistemology. Like social epistemologists, Gadamer worries about the epistemic irresponsibility that we encourage when we treat an attitude of objectivity, wherein the inquirer lacks any awareness of their social and historical situation, as an epistemic ideal. Like social epistemologists too, Gadamer argues that understanding that one is socially and historically situated does not mean believing that one is fated to simply repeat traditional ideas without critique or modification—a concern frequently raised in response to critiques of Enlightenment epistemology. By developing such parallels, Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology offers seasoned readers of Gadamer a new context in which to appreciate his discussion of understanding in Truth and Method and readers unfamiliar with Gadamer a productive point of access into his major work.

Carolyn Culbertson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University. She is the author of Words Underway: Continental Philosophy of Language.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Gadamer's Hermeneutic Conception of Understanding

1. The Central Question of Hermeneutics: What Does It Mean to Understand?

2. The Limitation of Two Historical Models of Knowing: The Enlightenment and Romanticism

3. Interpretation, Truth, and Hermeneutic Realism

Part II: Gadamerian Hermeneutics and Social Epistemology

4. The Central Question of Social Epistemology: What Does It Mean to Recognize Epistemic Practices as Social Practices?

5. Feminist Contributions to Social Epistemology

6. Gadamer's Hermeneutic Conception of Understanding as Social Epistemology

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4384-9816-0 / 1438498160
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-9816-4 / 9781438498164
Zustand	Neuware