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- ↑ Bowler, Michael (4 April 2010). "Review of Gadamer's Dialectical Hermeneutics". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617.
- ↑ Matarazzo, Tiziana (29 October 2016). "Get to Know Our Fellows: Four Questions with Lauren Swayne Barthold | Humility & Conviction in Public Life".
- ↑ "Book Spotlight: A Hermeneutic Approach to Social Identities by Lauren Swayne Barthold". Hermeneutical Movements. 29 September 2019.
- ↑ Botts, Tina Fernandes (2018). "In Black and White: A Hermeneutic Argument against Transracialism". Res Philosophica. 95 (2): 303–329. doi:10.11612/resphil.1626.
- ↑ "HI Distinguished Guest Lecture Series Humanities Institute". UCD Humanities Institute (HI).
- ↑ "Heathmere Center For Cultural Engagement".
- ↑ Botts, Tina Fernandes (Fall 2017). "A Hermeneutic Approach to Gender and Other Social Identities" (PDF). APA Newsletter: 16.
