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