Preface Introduction 1.The Hermeneutic Task of Re-Reading Kuhn 2. Providing a Rationale for a Hermeneutic Reformulation of Normal Science 3. Against Naturalism, and the Farewell to Normative Epistemology 4. On the Phenomenological Background of Cognitive Existentialism 5. Beyond the Context-Distinction 6. The Post-Epistemological Dimension of the Context of Constitution Chapter One - Ideas for the Situated Transcendence of Scientific Research Introduction Philosophical Hermeneutics and Hermeneutics of Scientific Research Heidegger's Ideas for the Constitutional Analysis of Scientific Research Postwar Ideas for the Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Science Against Cognitive Essentialism and the Possibility of a Cognitive Existentialism Chapter Two - Reformulating the Concept of 'Normal Science' in the Framework of Hermeneutic Phenomenology Normal Science, Practice Theory, and Kuhn's Historicism Framework-Reading Versus Tradition-Bound-Reading of Normal Science Community's Consensus and Situated Transcendence Chapter Three - Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Scientific Research Introductory Note b. Hermeneutic Fore-Structure, Cognitive Structure, and Research Everydayness c. Pre-Narrativity of Normal Scientific Research d. A Passage to Macro-Hermeneutics of Modern Science e. Thematizing Projects and Types of Scientific Research f. Non-Reductionist Unity and Non-Relativist Disunity of Science Chapter Four - The Normativity of Normal Science: Hermeneutic Contextualism andProto-Normativity Historical Note Between Wittgenstein and Heidegger The First Step: Normal Science's Normativity in Terms of Holistic Epistemology The Second Step: Towards a Hermeneutic Theory of Proto-Normativity Notes Name Index References

This book sets out an extensive argument against the foundationalist theories of justification, and advocates new life for philosophy of science. The author brings together aspects of an ontology of the interpretative constitution of research objects and a holistic picture of science's cognitive structures. The book is a contribution to a wide range of discussion concerning the post-Gadamerian extension of philosophical hermeneutics beyond the scope of the traditional humanistic culture.