Overview
- Offers a constructive dialogue on Seebohm’s analyses and their implications
- Details Seebohm’s general approach and his specific views
- Focuses especially on his final text, History as a Science and the System of the Sciences
Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 105)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Natural Scientific Methodologies and the Social Sciences
- Ontological Differences Underpinning the Social Sciences
- History, the Sciences, and disinterested observers
- Community of Scientists and Objectivity
- Motivations in the Social Sciences
- Eidetic Methodology
- Formal vs. Regional Ontology
- Classical vs. Non-Standard Mereology
- Ontology of Chemical Wholes
- Philosophy of Nature
- Transcendental Phenomenology
- Copenhagen Interpretation
- Seebohm's Hermeneutics
- Phenomenological Reduction
- History as a Science and the System of the Sciences
- Seebohm and Husserl on the Humanitites
- Alfred Schutz and Thomas Seebohm
- Geisteswissenschaften
About this book
This book explores the work of Thomas Seebohm (1934-2014), a leading phenomenologist and hermeneuticist. It features papers that offer a critical and constructive dialogue about Seebohm’s analyses and their implications for the sciences. The net result is an in-depth study and a helpful overview of Seebohm’s general approach and his specific views on various areas of modern science.
The contributors focus especially upon his final text, History as a Science and the System of the Sciences. They view this as the culmination and summary of his historical and phenomenological investigations into the foundations, nature, and limits of modern sciences. This includes not just history but the Geisteswissenschaften more generally, along with the social and natural sciences as well. The essays in this volume reflect that range.
This volume presents insightful discussions about the nature and legitimacy of the human sciences as sciences and the unique character ofthe social sciences. It will be of interest not just as a matter of historical scholarship, but also and above all as an important contribution to phenomenology and to the philosophy of science and the sciences as such. It deserves attention by scholars from any philosophical tradition interested in thinking about the foundations of their disciplines and a philosophy of science that includes, but is not limited to, the natural sciences.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Thomas Nenon (PhD, University of Freiburg) is Professor of Philosophy and Provost at the University of Memphis. He previously worked as an editor at the Husserl-Archives and instructor at the University of Freiburg before coming to University of Memphis. His teaching and research interests include Husserl, Heidegger, Kant and German Idealism, Hermeneutics, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He has served as review editor for Husserl Studies, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, as Director of the Center for the Humanities, and is President of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology. His current research interests include Husserl's theories of personhood and subjectivity and Kant and Hegel's practical philosophy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thomas Seebohm on the Foundations of the Sciences
Book Subtitle: An Analysis and Critical Appraisal
Editors: Thomas Nenon
Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23661-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23660-1Published: 04 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23663-2Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23661-8Published: 03 February 2020
Series ISSN: 0923-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 237
Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Nature, Philosophy of History, Hermeneutics, Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science