The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism

by Dimitri Ginev

Overview

In The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism, Dimitri Ginev draws on developments in hermeneutic phenomenology and other programs in hermeneutic philosophy to inform an interpretative approach to scientific practices. At stake is the question of whether it is possible to integrate forms of reflection upon the ontological difference in the cognitive structure of scientific research. A positive answer would have implied a proof that (pace Heidegger) “science is able to think.” This book is an extended version of such a proof. Against those who claim that modern science is doomed to be exclusively committed to the nexus of objectivism and instrumental rationality, the interpretative theory of scientific practices reveals science’s potentiality of hermeneutic self-reflection. Scientific research that takes into consideration the ontological difference has resources to enter into a dialogue with Nature.

Ginev offers a critique of postmodern tendencies in the philosophy of science, and sets out arguments for a feminist hermeneutics of scientific research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780821419762
Publisher:	Ohio University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Series:	Series In Continental Thought , #42
Edition description:	1
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dimitri Ginev is a professor at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. He is the author of The Context of Constitution: Beyond the Edge of Epistemological Justification and is founder and editor in chief of the international journal Studia Culturologica Divinatio.

Editorial Reviews

Ginev’s book is a skilfully crafted … account of an hermaneutic-phenomenological philosophy of science… worthy of a placement along the spectrum of possible approaches to the problems raised by the practices of the natural sciences.”—Metascience

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