ISHS Sessions at

4S/EASST Conference 2000,

27-30 September 2000,

Vienna, AUSTRIA

 

Hermeneutics vs. Systems Approaches to Science and Technology

Session Organisers: Ropolyi, Laszlo; Kiss, Olga

Session 01: Hermeneutics vs. Social Constructivist Approach to Science and Technology – Philosophical Background

Thursday, 9:00 -10:30
Chair: Ropolyi, Laszlo

  • Ihde, Don; Pinch, Trevor: Confronting Hermeneutic and Social Constructivist Ideas – A Discussion
  • Margitay, Tihamér: Hermeneutics and Criticism
  • Schulz, Reinhard: What is “Scientific Hermeneutics”?
  • Kiss, Olga: Paradigm Theory and Hermeneutics of Science
  • Kampis, George: Realism, Relativism, Constructivism
  • Fjelland, Ragnar: Science: Modern and Postmodern
  • Toronyai, Gábor: Edmund Husserl‘s transcendental phenomenology and the idea of a Reintegration of the Sciences into Philosophy

Session 02: Hermeneutic vs. Social Constructivist Approach to Science and Technology – Case studies

Thursday, 11:00 -12.30
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?
  • Gremmen, Bart: Risky Hermeneutics: Interpreting the Precautionary Principle
  • Jacobs, Josette: Sustainability or Sustainabilities?
  • Ropolyi, Laszlo: Some Aspects of a Hermeneutic Concept of Information
  • Székely, László: Paradigm, Hermeneutical Horizon, Incommensurability: A Critical Study on the Kuhnian Interpretation of the Copernican Turn