Title | Essays on Explanation and Understanding [electronic resource] : Studies in the Foundations of Humanities and Social Sciences / edited by Juha Manninen, Raimo Tuomela |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1976 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1823-4 |
Descript | 460 p. online resource |
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 Hintikkaโs 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