Preface 1. 'Two Cultures' revisited Anthony O'Hear 2. Rational and other animals John Haldane 3. Vico and metaphysical hermeneutics Leon Pompa 4. Three major originators of the concept of Verstehen: Vico, Herder and Schleirmacher Roger Hausheer 5. Weber's ideal types as models in the social sciences Friedel Weinert 6. Verstehen, holism and fascism David Cooper 7. Interpretation in history: Collingwood and historical understanding Patrick Gardiner 8. The meaning of the hermeneutic tradition in contemporary philosophy Andrew Bowie 9. Science and psychology Ilham Dilman 10. To mental illness via a Rhyme for the Eye T. S. Champlin 11. Can there be an epistemology of moods? Stephen Mulhall 12. Feeling and cognition Barrie Falk 13. Believing in order to understand Cyril Barrett 14. Data and theory in aesthetics: philosophical understanding and misunderstanding Ronald Hepburn 15. Anti-meaning as ideology: the case of deconstruction Robert Grant 16. Perictione in colophon Roger Scruton Index of names.
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