Acknowledgments ................................................ ix
Introduction ................................................... xi
1 Hermeneutic versus Objectivist Construal of the World .... xi
2 Constitutional Analysis of Meaning and Scientific
Practices ................................................ xx
3 Synopsis ................................................ xxv
1 Rereading Heidegger's Existential Conception of Science ...... 1
1 Scientific Research as a Mode of Being-in-the-World ....... 1
2 Is the Existential Conception of Science a Kind of
Philosophy of Science? .................................... 7
3 Steps in Overcoming Mathematical Essentialism ............ 11
4 Reading-Representing-Textualizing ........................ 17
5 A Note on Self-Referentiality ............................ 21
2 Cognitive Existentialism and Science's Theoretical Objects .. 23
1 Essentialist and Existentialist Perspectives on the
Distinction between Theoretical and Nontheoretical
Objects .................................................. 23
2 A Note on the Visualizability of Science's Theoretical
Objects .................................................. 30
3 The Historical Background of Cognitive Existentialism,
vis-б-vis Science's Theoretical Objects .................. 34
4 Replacing the Epistemological Reconstruction of Science
with a Hermeneutic Conception of Scientific Research ..... 40
5 Why Does Cognitive Existentialism Resist the Collapse
into a New Sort of Essentialism? ......................... 45
6 On the Notion of "Hermeneutic Fore-Structure" ............ 47
3 Cognitive Existentialism and Biological Research
1 The Notion of "Characteristic Hermeneutic Situation" ..... 65
2 From a Characteristic Hermeneutic Situation to a
Thematizing Project ...................................... 71
3 Thematizing Projects of Biological Research .............. 77
4 A Note on Irreducibility and Complementarity ............. 82
5 Nonreductionist Unity and Nonrelativist Disunity of
Biology .................................................. 86
4 Cognitive Existentialism and Postmodern Philosophy of
Science ..................................................... 90
1 Introduction ............................................. 90
2 The Postmodern Destruction of the Legitimation Project
of Modern Science ........................................ 96
3 From Deflationary Accounts of Knowledge to a
Comprehensive Naturalism ................................ 102
4 Basic Shortcomings of the Naturalistic-Deflationary
Accounts of Scientific Knowledge ........................ 107
5 Cognitive Existentialism and Feminist Philosophy of
Science .................................................... 115
1 Introduction ............................................ 115
2 Why Not Standpoint Epistemology ? ....................... 118
3 Feminist Postmodernism and Feminist Cultural Studies
of Science .............................................. 126
4 Gendered Constitution of Meaning and Gendered
Identities .............................................. 132
5 Preliminary Remarks on the Role of Narratives in
Expressing Gendered Identities in Scientific Research ... 137
6 Cognitive Existentialism and the Critical Philosophy of
Nature ..................................................... 143
1 Introduction: Politics of Nature versus Political
Ecology ................................................. 143
2 Marcuse's "New Science" ................................. 146
3 Extending the Scope of Cognitive Existentialism ......... 150
4 Characteristic Hermeneutic Situations in the Dialogue
with Nature ............................................. 155
Epilogue ...................................................... 161
Notes ......................................................... 163
References .................................................... 185
Index ......................................................... 195
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