Karl-Otto Apel, Translated by Glyn Adey and David Frisby

• Acknowledgements Preface to the English edition 1. Wittgenstein and the problem of hermeneutic understanding 2. Scientistics, and hermeneutics and the critique of ideology: outline of a theory of science from a cognitive - anthropological standpoint 3. From Kant to Peirce: the semiotical transformation of transcendental logic 4. Scientism or transcendental hermeneutics? on the question of the subject of the interpretation of signs in the semiotics of pragmatism 5. The communication community as the transcendental presupposition for the social sciences 6. Noam Chomsky's theory of language and contemporary philosophy: a case study in the philosophy of science 7. The a priori of the communication community and the foundations of ethics: the problem of a rational foundation of ethics in the scientific age Bibliography Index of names

Karl-Otto Apel, Translated by Glyn Adey and David Frisby

• Acknowledgements Preface to the English edition 1. Wittgenstein and the problem of hermeneutic understanding 2. Scientistics, and hermeneutics and the critique of ideology: outline of a theory of science from a cognitive - anthropological standpoint 3. From Kant to Peirce: the semiotical transformation of transcendental logic 4. Scientism or transcendental hermeneutics? on the question of the subject of the interpretation of signs in the semiotics of pragmatism 5. The communication community as the transcendental presupposition for the social sciences 6. Noam Chomsky's theory of language and contemporary philosophy: a case study in the philosophy of science 7. The a priori of the communication community and the foundations of ethics: the problem of a rational foundation of ethics in the scientific age Bibliography Index of names