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German philosopher of hermeneutics — 1900–2002
University of Heidelberg · Germany · d. 11 February 1900 (Marburg, Germany) — 13 March 2002 (Heidelberg, Germany)
Founder of philosophical hermeneutics, and a student of Heidegger at Marburg. Truth and Method (1960) argued that understanding is always shaped by the interpreter's historical situation, and that prejudice is the condition of interpretation rather than an obstacle to it. He debated Habermas in the 1970s and met Derrida in Paris in 1981.
Herman Cappelen and Rachel Sterken's open-access collection asks whether what passes between a person and a language model is communication at all. Sixteen chapters, one of which argues the volume's own premise is false. A review of the arguments, and of what the book declines to notice.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Saul Kripke, John Searle
Hans-Georg Gadamer spent four decades correcting readers of his own title. Truth and Method, published in 1960, argues that the humanities were reaching truth long before the natural sciences arrived to tell them they were not. What survives of the argument, including its quarrels with Habermas and Derrida, and what it can and cannot say about talking to a machine.
Jürgen Habermas, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer
