Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. He specializes in 19th- and 20th- century European philosophy, theory of interpretation, critical theory, philosophy of knowledge, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. He is the author of three books including The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005) and Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning (Routledge, 2012, awarded the Prix Mercier from the Université de Louvain).

• Introduction: What is the Ethics of Interpretation? Part 1: Two Versions of the Principle of Charity in Interpretation: Gadamer and Davidson 1. Gadamer’s Dialogical Interpretation 2. Davidson’s Radical Interpretation: Charity and Triangulation Part 2: Two Versions of a Poetics of Truth in Interpretation: Ricoeur and Foucault 3. Ricoeur’s Interpretive Truth: Attestation 4. Foucault’s Interpretive Truth: Parrhesia Part 3: Two Versions of What Regulates Interpretation: Validity Claims and Love 5. The Ethics of Discussion: Karl-Otto Apel’s Program 6. Benevolence or Love as both a Moral and an Epistemic Virtue Conclusion: Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative

Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. He specializes in 19th- and 20th- century European philosophy, theory of interpretation, critical theory, philosophy of knowledge, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. He is the author of three books including The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005) and Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning (Routledge, 2012, awarded the Prix Mercier from the Université de Louvain).

• Introduction: What is the Ethics of Interpretation? Part 1: Two Versions of the Principle of Charity in Interpretation: Gadamer and Davidson 1. Gadamer’s Dialogical Interpretation 2. Davidson’s Radical Interpretation: Charity and Triangulation Part 2: Two Versions of a Poetics of Truth in Interpretation: Ricoeur and Foucault 3. Ricoeur’s Interpretive Truth: Attestation 4. Foucault’s Interpretive Truth: Parrhesia Part 3: Two Versions of What Regulates Interpretation: Validity Claims and Love 5. The Ethics of Discussion: Karl-Otto Apel’s Program 6. Benevolence or Love as both a Moral and an Epistemic Virtue Conclusion: Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative

Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. He specializes in 19th- and 20th- century European philosophy, theory of interpretation, critical theory, philosophy of knowledge, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. He is the author of three books including The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005) and Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning (Routledge, 2012, awarded the Prix Mercier from the Université de Louvain).

• Introduction: What is the Ethics of Interpretation? Part 1: Two Versions of the Principle of Charity in Interpretation: Gadamer and Davidson 1. Gadamer’s Dialogical Interpretation 2. Davidson’s Radical Interpretation: Charity and Triangulation Part 2: Two Versions of a Poetics of Truth in Interpretation: Ricoeur and Foucault 3. Ricoeur’s Interpretive Truth: Attestation 4. Foucault’s Interpretive Truth: Parrhesia Part 3: Two Versions of What Regulates Interpretation: Validity Claims and Love 5. The Ethics of Discussion: Karl-Otto Apel’s Program 6. Benevolence or Love as both a Moral and an Epistemic Virtue Conclusion: Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative