Hermeneutics and the hypothetico-deductive method

Føllesdal, Dagfinn

doi:10.1111/j.1746-8361.1979.tb00759.x

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“…A second is to point out that, even if the case can be made for an ontological difference, it does not necessarily follow that there must be a methodological one. Classic statements of this view can be found in different theoretical traditions: empiricism (Nagel, 1961), hermeneutics (Follesdal, 1994), and critical realism (Bhaskar, 1979).…”

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Error and objectivity: cognitive illusions and qualitative research

Paley

2005

Nursing Philosophy

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Psychological research has shown that cognitive illusions, of which visual illusions are just a special case, are systematic and pervasive, raising epistemological questions about how error in all forms of research can be identified and eliminated. The quantitative sciences make use of statistical techniques for this purpose, but it is not clear what the qualitative equivalent is, particularly in view of widespread scepticism about validity and objectivity. I argue that, in the light of cognitive psychology, the 'error question' cannot be dismissed as a positivist obsession, and that the concepts of truth and objectivity are unavoidable. However, they constitute only a 'minimal realism', which does not necessarily bring a commitment to 'absolute' truth, certainty, correspondence, causation, reductionism, or universal laws in its wake. The assumption that it does reflects a misreading of positivism and, ironically, precipitates a 'crisis of legitimation and representation', as described by constructivist authors.

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Section: The Ontological Argumentmentioning

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Error and objectivity: cognitive illusions and qualitative research

Paley

2005

Nursing Philosophy

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“…While a relatively small number of commentators have detected this contribution from the methodology of medicine to the development of moral philosophy,58 the similarities between the hypothetic-deductive method and hermeneutics,59 and parallels between reductionism in science and art,60 this aspect of the medical humanities would appear to be a topic suitable for further research. Encouragement for this is provided by the artistic and cultural outputs arising from the emerging phenomenon of Science Galleries 61…”

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Rethinking the medical in the medical humanities

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To clinicians there are a number of striking features of the ever-evolving field of the medical humanities. The first is a perception of a predominantly unidirectional relationship between medicine and the humanities, generally in terms of what the arts and humanities have to offer medicine. The second is the portrayal of medical practice in terms of problems and negativities for which the medical humanities are seen to pose the solution rather than viewing medicine as an active and positive contributor to an interdisciplinary project. Paradigms that fail to recognise the contributions of medicine and its practitioners (including students) to the medical humanities, this paper argues, will continue to struggle with definition and acceptance. This paper explores the possibilities for advancing the medical humanities through recognition of the contribution of medicine to the humanities and the importance of engaging with the arts, culture and leisure pursuits of doctors and medical students. Our research shows the richness of cultural engagement of medical students, their broad range of cultural interests and their ability to contribute to research and scholarship in the medical humanities. Mutual recognition of strengths, weaknesses and differences of scholarly approach is critical to successful development of the enterprise. Recognising and building on the interests, sympathies and contributions of medicine and its practitioners to the medical humanities is a fundamental component of this task. Future directions might include introductory courses for humanities scholars in aspects of healthcare and medicine.

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“…14;Kindt/ Kçppe 2008;Kçppe/Winko 2010). We suggest that these interpretive processes, properly understood, exemplify instances of the hypothetical-deductive method (see Føllesdal 1979). One starts with a hypothesis concerning the unreliability of a narrator, and then determines whether what follows from this hypothesis is compatible with further hypotheses concerning the description of fictional facts.…”

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confidence: 96%