Steven M Duncan

The Nature of Inquiry Steven M Duncan

The author completes this series with a discussion of Hermeneutics, the theory of interpretation. Building on the account of intuitive knowledge offered in Volume VIA, this volume applies these ideas to two basic areas: history, on the one hand, and art and literary criticism on the other. The author addresses the Problem of Bias, the Hermeneutic Circle, and the differences history and the social sciences, on the one hand, and the natural sciences on the other. The author concludes with a discussion of the nature and ends of education as it relates to theoretical inquiry.