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...

Abstract In this paper, I take issue with the idea that Michel Foucault might be considered a theorist of epistemic injustice, and argue his philosophical premises are incompatible Miranda Fricker’s. Their main disagreement rests upon their divergent ways conceiving relationship between reason power, giving rise to contrasting forms normativity characterize critical projects. This can helpfully...

The foregoing quote by Haddon Robinson, a preacher and professor of preaching, underscores the necessary relationship between hermeneutics and homiletics. It is a relationship also recognized by others outside the area of sermon preparation and delivery. For instance, David Dockery comments: “Our understanding of hermeneutics, or the task of interpretation, focuses on discovering the historical...

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...

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...

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...

In this article, I argue, inter alia, that Kelsen’s mature view—as expressed in, and around the time of, second edition of Reine Rechtslehre—was a metaethical relativist, commitment to relativism was reason why Kelsen defended democracy as well tolerance in shape constitutionally guaranteed freedom thought. also consider possibility his post-1960 phase abandoned for moral fictionalism, but argu...

Manuscript information: 32 pages and three figures. Word counts: 198 words in the abstract and 8800 words in rest of the paper. Abstract We designed a new protocol requiring French adult participants to group a large number of Munsell colour chips into three or four groups. On one, relativist, view, participants would be expected to rely on their colour lexicon in such a task. In this framework...