Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God

Acknowledgments. Preface: `Patrick Heelan'; J. Ladrière, M. Jager. Introduction. The Fortunes of Incommensurability: Thought-Styles, Paradigms, and Patrick A. Heelan's Hermeneutic of Science; B.E. Babich. Hermeneutics and the Philosophy of Science. Section Summaries. The Hermeneutics of the Natural Sciences; S. Toulmin. Experimental Life: Heelan on Quantum Mechanics; R.P. Crease. The Hermeneutic Context of Constitution; D. Ginev. The `Copenhagen Interpretation' of Quantum Mechanics and Phenomenology; R. Fjelland. Sokal's Hermeneutic Hoax: Physics and the New Inquisition; B.E. Babich. Wittgenstein, Hertz, and Hermeneutics; A. Janik. On the Interpretive Nature of Hertz's Mechanics; J. Kockelmans. Comte and the Possibility of a Hermeneutics of Science; R.C. Scharff. Was heißt das - die Bewandtnis?: Retranslating the Categories of Heidegger's Hermeneutics of the Technical; T. Kisiel. The Hermeneutics of Texts; T. Seebohm. Husserlian Hermeneutics: Mathematics and Theoria; R. Cobb-Stevens. Abstracting Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics; J. Cleary. Piaget and Husserl: On Theory and Praxis in Science; W. Mays. Human Agency and the Social Sciences: From Contextual Phenomenology to Genealogy; T. O'Connor. Toward a Phenomenological Philosophy of Nature; J.J. Compton. No Man is an Island; J. Ziman. Science as the Work of a Community; R. Harré. Truth in Art, Visual Spaces and the Pragmatic Phenomenology of Perception. Section Summaries. Patrick Heelan's Interpretation of van Gogh's `Bedroom at Arles'; J. Margolis. Patrick Heelan's Innocent Eye; S. Crowell. Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Heidegger; J. Taminiaux. Heidegger's Truth of Art and the Question ofAesthetics; B.E. Babich. Phenomenology and 20th Century Artistic Revolutions; D.C. Barrett, S.J. Virtue and Virtual Reality in John Trumbull's Pantheon; I.B. Jaffe. Getting at the Rapture of Seeing: Ellsworth Kelly and Visual Experience; L.J. O'Donovan, S.J. Grammar(s) of Perception; B. Saunders. Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Sensibility; J. Schulkin. Phenomenology and Pragmatism; R.C. Neville. God: Religion and Science. Section Summaries. Psychoanalytic Praxis and the Truth of Pain; W.J. Richardson, S.J. Poetics of a Possible God &endash; Faith or Philosophy; R. Kearney. James on Bootstraps, Evolution, and Life; T. Nickles, G. McCollum-Nickles. In-Between Science and Religion; D. Balestra. Thinking the Philosophy of Religion; G. Barden. Van Gogh's Eyes; T.J.J. Altizer. A Catholic Stance Toward Scientific Inquiry for the 21st Century; S. Fuller. The Dialogism of Meaning, The Discursive Embeddedness of Knowledge, The Colloquy of Being; H. Byrnes. The Creative Imagination; W.N. Clarke, S.J. A Priestly View of Bible Arithmetic: Deity's Regulative Aesthetic Activity within Davidic Musicology; E.G. McClain. Afterword; P.A. Heelan, S.J. Bibliography: Patrick A. Heelan. Notes on Contributors. Index.