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Methodological Concepts
- Getting things right
- Hermeuteics, intentionalism and contextualism
- Specialization and interdisciplinary
- Understanding through research
- Objectivity
- Hermenuetics:
- Theory and practice of understanding texts through interpretation.
- Study of and adherence to principles and methods for determining the features and functions of the objects in question.
- General Hermeneutics: the most fundamental principles and procedures of interpretive processes that lead to understanding written texts
- interpreting ↔ understanding
- pre-understanding, elaborate-understanding
- reasoning
- Intentionalism in hermeneutics:
- ephasizes the importance and, in fact, the necessity of understanding any text with regard to its author’s intended meaning or purpose.
- realised intentions play
- Contextualism in hermeneutics:
- author’s biographical situation and the broader historical, cultural, or social context of production
- the meaning of a particular text is deeply and multifariously influenced by the surrounding circumstances, including the language, the intellectual and cultural milieu, historical events, and societal norms, which shaped or provoked the author’s deeds.
- Death of the author and AI: Barthes and Foucault
- Specialization:
- deliberate process of continuously focusing on a specific area of study, expertise, or skill, resulting in in-depth knowledge and methodical proficiency within that particular domain
- requires general knowledge first
- Interdisciplinary:
- integration of knowledge, methods, and approaches from multiple disciplines to adress complex research topics.
- collaboration among experts specialized in different fields to achieve a comprehensive understanding of scientific or scholarly questions related to those topics
- How do specialization and interdisciplinarity interrelate
- they are mutually depending
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Objectivity:
- it is an ideal
- peer-reviews, checking on ourselves and others
- Is it at all attainable, and if so, how?
- Social event, political event: Just sharing some information about a change in constitutional law — is “only sharing ob” “hides the real meaning of event” “manipulating word choices” — “unveiling the true meaning” “without using any personal comment / interpretation”