
Understanding and Explanation
A Transcendental-Pragmatic Perspective
Karl-Otto Apel(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 18. March 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-262-51041-7 (ISBN)
Description
Karl-Otto Apel, as much as any German theorist, bridges the gulf between Anglo-American and continental thought in both the style and content of his work. Understanding and Explanation clarifies the "explanation versus understanding" debate that has become central to the philosophy of the social sciences. Apel reexamines the debate over the logic of the social sciences from the perspective of an expanded theory of science, and he proposes a resolution in transcendent-pragmatic terms. He differentiates three legitimate approaches to the social sciences, connected with three "knowledge-constitutive" interests: deductive-nomological sciences, historical-hermeneutic sciences, and critical-reconstructive sciences.Understanding and Explanation is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-51041-7 (9780262510417)
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Persons
Karl-Otto Apel holds the chair for social philosophy at the University of Frankfurt.