The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy

Around Logical Empiricism

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-29026-6 (ISBN)

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Interpretive understanding of human behaviour, known as verstehen, underpins the divide between the social sciences and the natural sciences. Taking a historically orientated approach, this collection offers a fresh take on the development of understanding within analytic philosophy before, during and after logical empiricism. In doing so, it reinvigorates debates on the role of the social sciences within contemporary epistemology.

Bringing together leading experts including Martin Kusch, Thomas Uebel, Karsten Stueber and Giuseppina D’Oro, it is an authoritative reference on the logical empiricists’ philosophy of social science.

Charting the various reformulations of verstehen as proposed by Wilhem Dilthey, Max Weber, R.G Collingwood and Peter Winch, the volume explores the reception of the social sciences prior to logical empiricism, before surveying the positive and negative critiques from Otto Neurath, Felix Kaufmann, Viktor Kraft and other logical empiricists. As such, chapters reveal that verstehen was not altogether rejected by the Vienna Circle, but was subject to various conceptual uses and misuses. Along with systematic historical coverage, the book situates verhesten within contemporary interdisciplinary developments in the field, shedding light on the 21st-century ‘turn’ to understanding among analytic philosophers and opening further lines of inquiry for philosophy of social science.

Adam Tamas Tuboly is leader of the MTA Lendület “Values and Science” Research Group at the Research Centre for Humanities at Budapest, and Research Fellow at the ITD in the Medical School at the University of Pécs, Hungary.

1. Introduction, Adam Tamas Tuboly
Part I. Before Logical Empiricism
2. Georg Simmel on Historical Understanding, Martin Kusch
3. Understanding, psychology, and the human sciences: Dilthey and Völkerpsychologie, Lydia Patton
4. The Heuristic and Epistemic Account of Verstehen in 20th Century American Philosophy, Fons Dewulf
Part II. Logical Empiricism
5. Is There a Hermeneutic aspect in Carnap’s Aufbau, Christian Damböck
6. More on Neurath on Verstehen: The Rejection of Weber’s Ideal-Type Nethodology, Thomas Uebel
7. Andreas Vrahimis: Neurath’s Debate with Horkheimer and the Critique of Verstehen, Thomas Uebel
8. Viktor Kraft on Verstehen, Jan Radler
Part III. After Logical Empiricism
9. The Leopard does not Change its Spots: Naturalism and the Argument Against Methodological Pluralism in the Sciences, Jonas Ahlskog and Giuseppina D’Oro
10. Georg Henrik von Wright on Understanding (and Explanation), Henriikaa Hannula
11. Psychological Understanding, Tamas Demeter
12. Verstehen Redux: Understanding in Contemporary Epistemology, Aaron Preston
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.02.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-29026-2 / 1350290262
ISBN-13	978-1-350-29026-6 / 9781350290266
Zustand	Neuware