
Essays on Explanation and Understanding
Studies in the Foundations of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 31. December 1975
Book
Hardback
460 pages
978-90-277-0592-1 (ISBN)
Description
The present anthology consists of contributions to the philosophy of the humanities and the social sciences by European and American scholars. These writers represent not only the analytical tradition but also hermen eutic philosophy and Marxism. Of the papers included in this volume those by Professors Bubner, Hintikka, Kron, Tuomela, Kenny, Stoutland, Martin, and Niiniluoto were presented at an international colloquium on explanation and under standing held in Helsinki, Finland, on January 24-26, 1974. In addition to these papers, all the others, except Professor Winch's, were written specially for this anthology and have not been published before. Most of the papers are related to the work of Professor Georg Henrik von Wright in this philosophical field. The anthology includes an essay by Professor von Wright himself, together with his extensive replies to his commentators. In these replies he elaborates and, to some extent, revises his earlier views. On the whole, the anthology reflects the on-going con frontation of the analytical and continental trends. It produces new philo sophical and methodological ideas and results concerning the theory of human action, intentionality, understanding, causality, and determinism. Basil Blackwell Publishing House has kindly permitted the reprinting of Professor Winch's paper, originally published in Metaphilosophy 4 (1973), pp. 63-75. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the University of Helsinki, the Philosophical Society of Finland, and the Finnish Cultural Foundation (Suomen Kulttuurirahasto), which made pos sible the Helsinki colloquium.
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Edition
1976 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
460 p.
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
789 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-277-0592-1 (9789027705921)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-010-1823-4
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Content
I/Approaches to Teleology, Intentionality, and Historical Understanding.- Causal and Historical Explanation.- Against Reductionism and Purism : Tertium Datur.- Is Transcendental Hermeneutics Possible?.- The Intentions of Intentionality.- Comments on Professor Hintikka's Paper.- Reply to J. N. Findlay.- II/Causality and Intervention.- Causality and Action.- Causality and History.- An Analysis of Causality.- Explanation and Understanding of Human Behavior.- III/Human Action and its Explanation.- Human Abilities and Dynamic Modalities.- On Deciding.- Intention and Practical Inference.- The Causal Theory of Action.- Explanation and Understanding in History.- Inductive Explanation, Propensity, and Action.- IV/Replies to Commentators. Second thoughts on Explanation and Understanding.- Replies.- Determinism and the Study of Man.- Index of Names.