CONFERENCE ON
HERMENEUTICS AND SCIENCE
6-9th September, 1993
Veszprém, Hungary
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Dagfinn Follesdal (Oslo, Norway)
Patrick A. Heelan (Washington, DC, USA)
István M. Fehér (Budapest, Hungary)
Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Konstanz, Germany)
Imre Hronszky (Budapest, Hungary)
Don Ihde (Stony Brook, NY USA)
György Kampis (Budapest, Hungary)
György Márkus (Sydney, Australia)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Olga Kiss, Klára Láng, László Ropolyi, Tibor Schwendtner
The conference is organized under the aegis of
- Roland Eötvös Physical Society,
- Eötvös University, Budapest,
- Budapest University of Economic Sciences, and
- Hungarian Philosophical Society.
The conference is sponsored by the National Committee for Technological Development (OMFB)
CONFERENCE BUILDING
The conference will take place at the Conference Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in the Veszprém Castle.
Address: VEAB Székház, Vár u. 37. H – 8200 VESZPRÉM, Hungary
Conference office: from Sunday to Thursday on the ground floor
Phone/Fax: +36-88-326100
PROGRAM
The program of the conference includes the scientific program and social events.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Scientific program will consist of invited lectures (60 minutes, included discussion), contributed papers (20 minutes), and a round table discussion.
Invited Lectures
Karl-Otto Apel: History of Science as a Problem of Hermeneutics. An Argument with Karl Popper’s “Third World”-Hermeneutics
Robert P Crease: Productive Objectivity: The Hermeneutics of Performance and Recognition in Experimental Inquiry
Péter Érdi: Towards a Poststructuralist Brain Theory: from Dynamic Structuralism to Hermeneutics
Márta Fehér: On the Role Accorded to the Public by Philosophers of Science Dagfinn Follesdal: Hermeneutics and Natural Science
Ágnes Heller: Friction
Don Ihde: Perceptual Reasoning
György Kampis: The Hermeneutics of Life
Otto Rössler: Interfaciology
Mihály Vajda: Worum geht es in den Naturwissenschaften?
Round table discussion
The Concept of Hermeneutics
SOCIAL PROGRAMS
September 5, Sunday
21.00 Welcome party at the Conference Building
September 7, Tuesday
19.45 – 20.25 Organ concert in the Basilica
September 8, Wednesday
13.45 – 21.00 Guests are invited to a bus trip to Tihany – Balatonfüred and finish the day having a dinner in a special countryside restaurant called “csárda”.
SCHEDULE
SEPTEMBER 5, SUNDAY
9 pm Welcome party at the Conference Building
SEPTEMBER 6, MONDAY
9am
Opening address by ISTVÁN M. FEHÉR
KARL-OTTO APEL: HISTORY OF SCIENCE AS A PROBLEM OF HERMENEUTICS. AN ARGUMENT WITH KARL POPPER’S “THIRD WORLD”-HERMENEUTICS
Gary L. Hardcastle: Accomplishing Translation: The Notion of Evidence in the Discipline of the History of Science
Olga Kiss: Meaningful Mistakes
Coffee break
DON IHDE: PERCEPTUAL REASONING
Gábor Toronyai: Scheler, Kuhn and the Revolutionary Genesis of Modern Science
Lunch
2.30 pm
ROBERT P. CREASE: PRODUCTIVE OBJECTIVITY: THE HERMENEUTICS OF PERFORMANCE AND RECOGNITION IN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY
László I. Komlósi: Interpreting the dichotomy of Value-Free Worlds and Value-Imposing Minds as opposed to the Notion of Meaningful Environment: On the nature of “meaning” in ecological versus cognitivist psychologies
Coffee break
5.45 pm
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: The Concept of Hermeneutics
Chair: ISTVÁN M. FEHÉR
SEPTEMBER 7, TUESDAY
9 am
OTTO RÖSSLER: INTERFACIOLOGY
Martin Eger: Language and the Double Hermeneutic in Natural Sciences
Michael J. Zenzen: Science, Hermeneutics and Metaphorical Thought
ÁGNES HELLER: FRICTION
Coffee break
MIHÁLY VAJDA: WORUM GEHT ES IN DEN NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN?
Tibor Schwendtner: Paralellen in der Wissenschaftsauffassung von Heidegger und Kuhn
Lunch
2.30 pm
MÁRTA FEHÉR: ON THE ROLE ACCORDED TO THE PUBLIC BY PHILOSOPHERS OF SCIENCE
Coffee break
DAGFINN FOLLESDAL: HERMENEUTICS AND NATURAL SCIENCE
Dieter Freundlieb: The Differences between the Natural and the Hermeneutical Sciences: On Habermas’ Theory of the Normative Nature of Linguistic Interpretation
7.45 pm – 8.25 pm
Organ concert in the Basilica
SEPTEMBER 8, WEDNESDAY
9am
GYÖRGY KAMPIS: THE HERMENEUTICS OF LIFE
Rheinhard Schulz: To Understand Biology, What Does It Mean? Some Preconsiderations with Respect to a Hermeneutical Biology
Coffee break
PÉTER ÉRDI: TOWARDS A POSTSTRUCTURALIST BRAIN THEORY: FROM DYNAMIC STRUCTURALISM TO HERMENEUTICS
Susanne Lijmbach: An Hermeneutical Ethology?
Lunch
1.45pm-9pm
EXCURSION to Tihany – Balatonfüred (dinner)
SEPTEMBER 9, THURSDAY
9am
László Ropolyi: Against the Selfish Theory
László Fekete: Getting Rid of Human Discourse by Means of the Metaphysical Language of Things
Coffee break
Bart Gremmen: The Justification of the Application of Science
Enrico Giannetto: Heidegger and the Question of Physics
Antonino Drago: Incommensurability as the Bound to Hermeneutics in Science
Michael Stöltzner: Action Principles. Traces of Teleology in Physics?
CLOSING ADDRESS by DON IHDE