Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Manninen, Juha[Herausgeber]
• Tuomela, Raimo[Herausgeber]

Titel

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

Ist Teil von

• Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences : 72

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1976

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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