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(2015) The problem of objectivity in Gadamer's hermeneutics in light of McDowell's empiricism, Dordrecht, Springer.
In Chaps. 3 and 4, we have seen how McDowell and the Sellarsian tradition can provide a framework for the rearticulation of philosophical hermeneutics. In the transcendental and ontological version propounded by McDowell, the Socratic paradigm of logon didonai allows us to hold on to the crucial link between understanding and objectivity and also formulate a notion of perceptual experience that respects this connection. In this way, Gadamer's own claims that language and understanding comprehend everything that can ever be an object, and that it is through language that our most primordial belongingness to the world presents itself, find renewed support. Furthermore, this interpretation of Gadamer emphasises the central status of the concept of self-presentation that distinguishes philosophical hermeneutics. This notion expresses a critique of the notions of judgement and interpretation, because they are not able to capture the aspect of passive receptivity that must be maintained in order to make sense of our understanding as constrained by its subject matter.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18648-1_5
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Thaning, M.S. (2015). Historical and situated objectivity: tradition and phronēsis, in The problem of objectivity in Gadamer's hermeneutics in light of McDowell's empiricism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 117-165.
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