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Is there a sense in which interpretation is essential to explanation in the sciences of man? The view that it is, that there is an unavoidably “hermeneutical” component in the sciences of man, goes back to Dilthey. But recently the question has come again to the fore, for instance, in the work of Gadamer,1 in Ricoeur’s interpretation of Freud,2 and in the writings of Habermas.3
I have greatly benefited in preparing this paper from discussions held under the auspices of the Study Group for the Unity of Knowledge, whose meetings were supported by the Ford Foundation.
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Taylor, C. (1973). Interpretation and the Sciences of Man. In: Carr, D., Casey, E.S. (eds) Explorations in Phenomenology. Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1999-6_3
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