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Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen

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Editors:
  1. Uljana Feest

    1. Inst. Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie,, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  • It addresses a current interest in a contextualized history of philosophy
  • It is interdisciplinary in that it brings together historians of science and philosophers

Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 21)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen: Introduction

    • Uljana Feest
    Pages 1-13

  3. Epistemological Distinctions and Cultural Politics: Educational Reform and the Naturwissenschaft/Geisteswissenschaft Distinction in Nineteenth-Century Germany

    • Denise Phillips
    Pages 15-35

  4. Vestiges of the Book of Nature: Religious Experience and Hermeneutic Practices in Protestant German Theology, ca. 1900

    • Bernhard Kleeberg
    Pages 37-59

  5. How Wilhelm Dilthey Influenced Popular Science Writing: Kurd Laßwitz’s “Homchen. Ein Tiermärchen aus der oberen Kreide”

    • Safia Azzouni
    Pages 61-79

  6. Explaining History. Hippolyte Taine’s Philosophy of Historical Science

    • Philipp Müller
    Pages 81-99

  7. Understanding and Explanation in France: From Maine de Biran’s Méthode Psychologique to Durkheim’s Les Formes Élémentaires de la vie Religieuse

    • Warren Schmaus
    Pages 101-120

  8. Instead of Erklären and Verstehen: William James on Human Understanding

    • David E. Leary
    Pages 121-140

  9. Erklären, Verstehen, and Embodied Rationalities: Scientific Praxis as Regional Ontology

    • Katherine Arens
    Pages 141-159

  10. British Thought on the Relations Between the Natural Sciences and the Humanities, c. 1870–1910

    • Roger Smith
    Pages 161-185

  11. Accounting for the Unity of Experience in Dilthey, Rickert, Bradley and Ward

    • Christopher Pincock
    Pages 187-206

  12. Individuality and Interpretation in Nineteenth-Century German Historicism

    • Jacques Bos
    Pages 207-220

  13. Shaping Disciplinary Boundaries: Scientific Practice and Politics in the Methodenstreit Between the German Historical School and the Austrian School of Economics

    • Filomena de Sousa
    Pages 221-240

  14. From Mill via von Kries to Max Weber: Causality, Explanation, and Understanding

    • Michael Heidelberger
    Pages 241-265

  15. Social Science Between Neo-Kantianism and Philosophy of Life: The Cases of Weber, Simmel, and Mannheim

    • Daniel Šuber
    Pages 267-290

  16. Opposition to Verstehen in Orthodox Logical Empiricism

    • Thomas Uebel
    Pages 291-309

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 311-320
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twentieth-century literature about the distinction between explanation and und- standing)? Second, can we do justice to a particular writer’s notion of that category by taking at face value what he writes about his own motivation for adopting it? In response to both types of questions, there is by now a consensus amongst many historians of science and of philosophy that (a) intellectual history – like other kinds of history – has to be careful not to uncritically adopt actors’ categories, and (b) more generally, even the actors’ own thinking about a particular issue has to be contextualized vis-à-vis their other intellectual commitments and interests, as well as the complex conditions that make the totality of their commitments possible. Such conditions include cognitive as well as practical, institutional, and cultural factors. The articles in this volume respond to these challenges in several ways. For example, one author (Christopher Pincock) seeks to read some of the nineteen- century philosophical writings about Erklären and Verstehen as standing for a more fundamental problem, which he terms the problem of the “unity of experience”.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Inst. Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie,, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Uljana Feest

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen

  • Editors: Uljana Feest

  • Series Title: Archimedes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3540-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3539-4Published: 22 December 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3134-9Published: 14 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3540-0Published: 15 December 2009

  • Series ISSN: 1385-0180

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 320

  • Topics: History of Science, Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy

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