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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Manninen, Juha,
• Tuomela, Raimo,

Titel

Essays on explanation and understanding : studies in the foundations of humanities and social sciences

Auflage

1st ed. 1976

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht, the Netherlands : D. Reidel Publishing Company,

Erscheinungsjahr

[1976]

Link zum Volltext

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• 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.
• Description based on print version record.