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Interpreting Practice: Dilthey, Epistemology, and the Hermeneutics of Historical Life
This paper explores Diltheyâs radical transformation of epistemology and the human sciences through his projects of a critique of historically embodied reason and his hermeneutics of historically mediated life. Answering criticisms that Dilthey overly depends on epistemology, I show how for Dilthey neither philosophy nor the human sciences should be reduced to their theoretical, epistemological, or cognitive dimensions. Dilthey approaches both immediate knowing and theoretical knowledge in the context of a hermeneutical phenomenology of historical life. Knowing is not an isolated activity but an interpretive and self-interpretive practice oriented by situated reflexive awareness and self-reflection. As embedded in an historical relational context, knowing does not only consist of epistemic validity claims about representational contents but is fundamentally practical, involving all of human existence. Empirically informed Besinnung, with its double reference to sense as meaning and bodily awareness, orients Diltheyâs inquiry rather than the âirrationalismâ of immediate intuition or the ârationalismâ of abstract epistemological reasoning
Encountering Nature: Toward an Environmental Culture
Review of : Encountering Nature: Toward an Environmental Culture by Thomas Hey
Heidegger and the Questionability of the Ethical
Despite Heideggerâs critique of ethics, his use of ethically-inflected language intimates an interpretive ethics of encounter involving self-interpreting agents in their hermeneutical context and the formal indication of factical life as a situated dwelling open to possibilities enacted through practices of care, interpretation, and individuation. Existence is constituted practically in Daseinâs addressing, encountering, and responding to itself, others, and its world. Unlike rule-based or virtue ethics, this ethos of responsive encounter and individuating confrontation challenges any grounding in a determinate or exemplary model of reason, human nature, the virtues, or tradition
Moral and Political Prudence in Kant
This paper challenges the standard view that Kant ignored the role of prudence in moral life by arguing that there are two notions of prudence at work in his moral and political thought. First, prudence is ordinarily understood as a technical imperative of skill that consists in reasoning about the means to achieve a particular conditional end. Second, prudence functions as a secondary form of practical thought that plays a significant role in the development of applied moral and political judgment. The political judgment of citizens and politicians is prudence regulatively guided by right and virtue. As informed by regulative ideas, prudential judgment negotiates the demands of these ideas in relation to the cultural, political, and social realities of a particular form of life. This sense of prudence is empirically informed and involves a context-sensitive application of morality as well as conceptions of individual and general welfar
Schleiermacher on Language, Religious Feeling, and the Ineffable
This paper is about the relevance of the ineffable and the singular to hermeneutics. I respond to standard criticisms of Friedrich Schleiermacher by Karl Barth and Hans-Georg Gadamer in order to clarify his understanding of language, interpretation, and religion. Schleiermacherâs âindicative hermeneuticsâ is developed in the context of the ethical significance of communication and the ineffable. The notion of trace is employed in order to interpret the paradox of speaking about that which cannot be spoken. The trace is not a brute singularity but bears a fundamental relationship to the wordâand ultimately the word of Godâfor Schleiermache
A Mock Data and Science Challenge for Detecting an Astrophysical Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
The purpose of this mock data and science challenge is to prepare the data
analysis and science interpretation for the second generation of
gravitational-wave experiments Advanced LIGO-Virgo in the search for a
stochastic gravitational-wave background signal of astrophysical origin. Here
we present a series of signal and data challenges, with increasing complexity,
whose aim is to test the ability of current data analysis pipelines at
detecting an astrophysically produced gravitational-wave background, test
parameter estimation methods and interpret the results. We introduce the
production of these mock data sets that includes a realistic observing scenario
data set where we account for different sensitivities of the advanced detectors
as they are continuously upgraded toward their design sensitivity. After
analysing these with the standard isotropic cross-correlation pipeline we find
that we are able to recover the injected gravitational-wave background energy
density to within for all of the data sets and present the results
from the parameter estimation. The results from this mock data and science
challenge show that advanced LIGO and Virgo will be ready and able to make a
detection of an astrophysical gravitational-wave background within a few years
of operations of the advanced detectors, given a high enough rate of compact
binary coalescing events
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