Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God

1. Truth in Art, Visual Space, and the Pragmatic Phenomenology of Perception

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-232

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   2. Patrick Heelan’s Interpretation of van Gogh’s “Bedroom at Arles”

      • Joseph Margolis

      Pages 233-238

   3. Patrick Heelan’s Innocent Eye

      • Steven Crowell

      Pages 239-250

   4. Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Heidegger

      • Jacques Taminiaux

      Pages 251-263

   5. Heidegger’s Truth of Art and the Question of Aesthetics

      • Babette E. Babich

      Pages 265-278

   6. Phenomenology and 20th Century Artistic Revolutions

      • D. Cyril Barrett

      Pages 279-286

   7. Virtue and Virtual Reality in John Trumbull’s Pantheon

      • Irma B. Jaffe

      Pages 287-298

   8. Getting at the Rapture of Seeing: Ellsworth Kelly and Visual Experience

      • Leo J. O’Donovan

      Pages 299-304

   9. Grammar(s) of Perception

      • Barbara Saunders

      Pages 305-313

   10. Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Sensibility

       • Jay Schulkin

       Pages 315-322

   11. Phenomenology and Pragmatism: A Continuing Dialogue with Patrick A. Heelan

       • Robert Cummings Neville

       Pages 323-334

2. God, Religion, and Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 335-338

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   2. Psychoanalytic Praxis and the Truth of Pain

      • William J. Richardson

      Pages 339-350

   3. Poetics of a Possible God — Faith or Philosophy?

      • Richard Kearney

      Pages 351-360

   4. James on Bootstraps, Evolution, and Life

      • Thomas Nickles, Gaye McCollum-Nickles

      Pages 361-376

   5. In-between Science and Religion

      • Dominic Balestra

      Pages 377-384

   6. Thinking the Philosophy of Religion

      • Garrett Barden

      Pages 385-392

   7. Van Gogh’s Eyes

      • Thomas J. J. Altizer

      Pages 393-402

   8. A Catholic Stance toward Scientific Inquiry for the 21st Century

      • Steve Fuller

      Pages 403-410

   9. The Dialogism of Meaning, The Discursive Embeddedness of Knowledge, The Colloquy of Being

      • Heidi Byrnes

      Pages 411-422

perceptual essences that can be rendered directly manifest in perception with the help of theoretically structured instruments serving as 'readable technologies'. " Scientific knowledge should thus be understood as an extension of "unassisted" perception. A perceptual fact has an outer horizon "which separates it from the ground on which it appears," and an inner horizon "composed of a multiplicity of possible perceptual profiles organized by an invariant essence. " The perceiving subject can "bring forth a representative sample of the profiles in question," occasionally by making use of certain technological processes, which are themselves subject to interpretation in terms of theoretical representations. The theoretical entities described in these representations are not "simply detected thanks to an inferential operation, but rather, they are directly perceived. " It follows from this that the correspondence between the "manifest image" and the "scientific image" is not done one-to-one, but by a "many-to-one or one-to­ many application between contextually defined perceptual objects within contexts that are mutually incompatible but complementary. " This should not, however, be understood as a form of conventionalism, nor as a form of "cultural relativism. " Pre­ comprehension, which guides interpretation imposes strict limits to the descriptive categories which can be used and to the manner in which they can be linked to appropriate empirical objects. The author applies his hermeneutic principles to the study of visual perception. (In fact this question is treated in the first part of the book.

• 20th century
• 21st century
• Edmund Husserl
• Jacques Lacan
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Martin Heidegger
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Michel Foucault
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of art
• aesthetics
• hermeneutics
• phenomenology
• psychology
• quantum mechanics

• Fordham University, New York, USA

  Babette E. Babich

• Georgetown University, USA

  Babette E. Babich

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