Book of Nature Explained: Scientific Hermeneutics: Hermeneutics and Humanities and Social Sciences

Author: Huang Xiaohan
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: This book is one of the series "Interpretive Theory and Human Social Sciences" to be published by our press in the near future. Since the emergence of philosophical interpretive theory in the 1960s, it has not only had a significant impact on Western philosophy and aesthetics but has also rapidly spread to fields such as literature, linguistics, history, law, art, theology, and sociology. This series aims to showcase the theoretical achievements of interpretive theory in various disciplines and to organize related issues. The authors of this series are all renowned professors from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, and universities in the respective research fields. Scientific interpretive theory has been a new topic of study in philosophy in recent decades. The book "Interpreting the Book of Nature—Scientific Interpretive Theory" analyzes and elaborates on scientific interpretive theory from aspects such as its proposal, academic tradition, basic characteristics, and research status. It reveals that natural science, like the humanities and social sciences, also possesses an interpretive nature, and scientific interpretive theory holds multifaceted significance in the study of natural science. Additionally, the book explains the revolutionary impact of scientific interpretive theory on the scientific worldview and its related implications, thereby presenting a clear macroscopic picture of scientific interpretive theory. Scientific interpretation has been a new topic of study in philosophy in recent decades. The book "Scientific Interpretive Theory" analyzes and elaborates on scientific interpretation from aspects such as its proposal, academic tradition, basic characteristics, and research status. It reveals that natural science, like the humanities and social sciences, also possesses an interpretive nature, and scientific interpretive theory holds multifaceted significance in the study of natural science. The book highlights the revolutionary impact of scientific interpretive theory on the scientific worldview, which enables natural scientists to have a clearer understanding of the nature of natural science. At the same time, it has also played a certain role in promoting the integration and development of Anglo-American philosophy of science and European continental philosophy.