The Fortunes of Incommensurability: Thoughtstyles, Paradigms, and Patrick A. Heelan's Hermeneutic of Science.- Hermeneutics and the Philosophy of Science.- The Hermeneutics of the Natural Sciences.- Experimental Life: Heelan on Quantum Mechanics.- The Hermeneutic Context of Constitution.- The "Copenhagen Interpretation" of Quantum Mechanics and Phenomenology.- Sokal's Hermeneutic Hoax: Physics and the New Inquisition.- Wittgenstein, Hertz, and Hermeneutics.- On the Interpretive Nature of Hertz's Mechanics.- Comte and the Possibility of a Hermeneutics of Science.- Was heißt das - die Bewandtnis? Retranslating the Categories of Heidegger's Hermeneutics of the Technical.- The Hermeneutics of Texts.- Husserlian Hermeneutics: Mathematics and Theoria.- Abstracting Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics.- Piaget and Husserl: On Theory and Praxis in Science.- Human Agency and the Social Sciences: From Contextual Phenomenology to Genealogy.- Toward a Phenomenological Philosophy of Nature.- No Man is an Island.- Science as the Work of a Community.- Truth in Art, Visual Space, and the Pragmatic Phenomenology of Perception.- Patrick Heelan's Interpretation of van Gogh's "Bedroom at Arles".- Patrick Heelan's Innocent Eye.- Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Heidegger.- Heidegger's Truth of Art and the Question of Aesthetics.- Phenomenology and 20th Century Artistic Revolutions.- Virtue and Virtual Reality in John Trumbull's Pantheon.- Getting at the Rapture of Seeing: Ellsworth Kelly and Visual Experience.- Grammar(s) of Perception.- Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Sensibility.- Phenomenology and Pragmatism.- God: Religion and Science.- Psychoanalytic Praxis and the Truth of Pain.- Poetics of a Possible God - Faith or Philosophy?.- James on Bootstraps,Evolution, and Life.- In-Between Science and Religion.- Thinking the Philosophy of Religion.- Van Gogh's Eyes.- A Catholic Stance Toward Scientific Inquiry for the 21st Century.- The Dialogism of Meaning, The Discursive Embeddedness of Knowledge, The Colloquy of Being.- The Creative Imagination.- A Priestly View of Bible Arithmetic: Deity's Regulative Aesthetic Activity within Davidic Musicology.- Afterword.- Bibliography: Patrick A. Heelan.- Notes on Contributors.

perceptual essences that can be rendered directly manifest in perception with the help of theoretically structured instruments serving as 'readable technologies'. " Scientific knowledge should thus be understood as an extension of "unassisted" perception. A perceptual fact has an outer horizon "which separates it from the ground on which it appears," and an inner horizon "composed of a multiplicity of possible perceptual profiles organized by an invariant essence. " The perceiving subject can "bring forth a representative sample of the profiles in question," occasionally by making use of certain technological processes, which are themselves subject to interpretation in terms of theoretical representations. The theoretical entities described in these representations are not "simply detected thanks to an inferential operation, but rather, they are directly perceived. " It follows from this that the correspondence between the "manifest image" and the "scientific image" is not done one-to-one, but by a "many-to-one or one-to­ many application between contextually defined perceptual objects within contexts that are mutually incompatible but complementary. " This should not, however, be understood as a form of conventionalism, nor as a form of "cultural relativism. " Pre­ comprehension, which guides interpretation imposes strict limits to the descriptive categories which can be used and to the manner in which they can be linked to appropriate empirical objects. The author applies his hermeneutic principles to the study of visual perception. (In fact this question is treated in the first part of the book.