Essays on Explanation and Understanding: Studies in the Foundations of Humanities and Social Sciences

✍ Scribed by Manfred Riedel (auth.), Juha Manninen, Raimo Tuomela (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 438
• Series: Synthese Library 72
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Causal and Historical Explanation....Pages 3-25
Against Reductionism and Purism: Tertium Datur....Pages 27-58
Is Transcendental Hermeneutics Possible?....Pages 59-77
The Intentions of Intentionality....Pages 79-109
Comments on Professor Hintikka’s Paper....Pages 111-116
Reply to J. N. Findlay....Pages 117-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Causality and Action....Pages 123-135
Causality and History....Pages 137-158
An Analysis of Causality....Pages 159-182
Explanation and Understanding of Human Behavior....Pages 183-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Human Abilities and Dynamic Modalities....Pages 209-232
On Deciding....Pages 233-247
Intention and Practical Inference....Pages 249-269
The Causal Theory of Action....Pages 271-304
Explanation and Understanding in History....Pages 305-334
Inductive Explanation, Propensity, and Action....Pages 335-368
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Replies....Pages 371-413
Determinism and the Study of Man....Pages 415-435
Back Matter....Pages 437-445

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of the Social Sciences