Discussions of the theoretical foundations of artiicial intelligence increasingly refer to hermeneutics, a branch of continental European philosophy concerned with human understanding and the interpretation of written texts. Dreyfus and Wino-grad draw heavily on hermeneutics to question the feasibility of AI and cognitive science. But, hermeneutics also ooers insights that may contribute to the...

Empirical ethics is based upon the idea that empirical research can be used to develop new and better ethical theories. Empirical research can elucidate the relevance of ethical issues in daily life, and show which problems require normative analysis. It can also give insight into the considerations of practitioners, which might be morally relevant because they embody experience. In the literat...

Rational choice and hermeneutics seem at odds, but the tension can be fruitfully resolved. The conflict between them closely mirrors the earlier conflict between historicism and positivism. In interwar Vienna, an influential group of social scientists tried to combine the best elements of both approaches. Rational choice was united with Verstehen and the method of ideal types, as evidenced by t...

Hermeneutics has been central to the practice of Jung's psychology from the beginning, although he never fully and consistently developed a hermeneutic method of inquiry and the literature addressing this aspect of his psychology is not extensive. In this paper(1) we undertake a critical re-examination of Jung's relationship to hermeneutic thought, based on his explicit references to hermeneut...

This paper attempts to demonstrate the principles of hermeneutics in an effort to understand factors affecting Information Systems (IS) projects. As hermeneutics provides a systematic method of interpreting text from multiple information sources, thus, Information Systems being prima facie defined and documented as text documents, are eminently suited for this mode of investigation. In this pap...

This article has as its objective the desire to contribute to nursing practice with the use of Gadamer's hermeneutics. It reflects on the incorporation of the conceptual paradigm of health, care and therapeutic dialogue. In the first section the article discusses the Gadamerian concepts of the work Truth and Method, the hermeneutics philosophy proposed by the philosopher, and it concludes with ...

Despite the proliferation of information technology, the implementation of information systemsremains problematic. Many systems fail to live up to expectations and some end up as disasters. Research on implementation has been conducted for the past two decades, but no theoretical framework for IS implementation has been widely accepted. This paper proposes dialectical hermeneutics as a theoreti...

Spenser Ter ry (1840-1914) was a nine teen th-cen tury Methodis t Episcopal ian. He wa s a g radu ate of Y ale Div inity Sch ool a nd p rofes sor o f Hebrew a nd O ld Testament exegesis and theology at Garrett Biblical Institute. He w as the author of Biblical Apocalyptics and numerous commentaries on Old Testament books, but is most often remem bered for his book Bib lical Hermeneutics, which ...

Reflexivity lies at the heart of this thesis: I seek to understand to have knowledge of a particular way of knowing. There are echoes of this reflexivity in my literature review of embodied cognition, where I discussed attempts to think about how we think. This reflexive circle need not be 'vicious', in the sense of tying me into a knot of self-reference, if I apply the tools of phenomenology a...

By drawing from semiology, epistemology and philosophical hermeneutics, we discuss the way CSCW models data, situation and activity—information representation. We point out similarities between discourse in hermeneutics and in the anthropology and sociology that predominates in CSCW, and propose that a hermeneutic perspective offers a unifying view on the social science and computer science wit...