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HERMENEUTICS AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES
HERMENEUTICS AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Author(s): Shaun Gallagher
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych
Keywords: COGNITIVE SCIENCE; EMBODIED; HERMENEUTICS; INTERPRETATION; UNDERSTANDING

Summary/Abstract: Philosophical hermeneutics, understood as the theory of interpretation, investigates some questions that are also asked in the cognitive sciences. The nature of human understanding, the way that we gain and organize knowledge, the role played by language and memory in these considerations, the relations between conscious and unconscious knowledge, and how we understand other persons, are all good examples of issues that form the intersection of hermeneutics and the cognitive sciences. Although hermeneutics is most often contrasted with the natural sciences, there are some clear ways in which hermeneutics can contribute to the cognitive sciences and vice versa

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 197-212
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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