Updating the Interpretive Turn

This collection of essays explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates.

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Michiel Meijer is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp. His recent publications include "Articulating Better, Being Better: Ethical Emancipation and the Sources of Motivation." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2022) 25:1, 107122 and "Clarifying Moral Clarification: On Taylor's Contribution to Metaethics." International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2021) 29:5, 705722.

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Introduction: Hermeneutics in the Wake of The Interpretive Turn

Michiel Meijer

Part I: American Case Studies

1. Worldmaking in the Social Sciences: Double-Hermeneutic Effects, As-If Scenarios, and Narrative Causality

Jason Blakely

2. Hermeneutics and Polarized Identities

Georgia Warnke

Part II: Non-Relativist, Realist, and Non-Anthropocentric Approaches

3. A Hermeneutics of Dialogical Understanding in the "Post-Truth" Era: Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics

Hanna Meretoja

4. What Is Interpretive Metaethics and Why Do We Need It?

Michiel Meijer

5. "How Other Kinds of Beings See Us Matters": On the Scope of Interpretation

Arne Johan Vetlesen

Part III: Interpretation as Practice

6. Hermeneutics as a Metaphilosophy and a Philosophy of Work

Nicholas H. Smith

7. Hermeneutics and Testimony: On Selfhood and the Constitution of the Social Bond

Gert-Jan van der Heiden

8. Measurement, Hermeneutics, and Standardization: Why Gadamerian Hermeneutics is Necessary to Contemporary Philosophy of Science

Leah McClimans

Index