Hans Herbert Kogler, Karstan Stueber

Empathy And Agency

The Problem Of Understanding In The Human Sciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a solid foundation of the fundamental issues in social and cognitive science. It offers new insights into two competing approaches to the understanding of human conduct-the 'theory' theory and the 'simulation' theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 151mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780813391199
• ISBN-10: 0813391199
• Artikelnr.: 22259425

Autorenporträt

Hans Herbert Kogler

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Empathy, Simulation, and Interpretation in the Philosophy of Social Science
Simulation and the Explanation of Action
The Theory of Holistic Simulation: Beyond Interpretivism and Postempiricism
Imitation or the Internalization of Norms: Is Twentieth
Century Social Theory Based on the Wrong Choice?
Simulation and Epistemic Competence
Understanding Other Minds and the Problem of Rationality
Simulation Theory and the Verstehen School: A Wittgensteinian Approach
From Simulation to Structural Transposition: A Diltheyan Critique of Empathy and Defense of Verstehen
Empathy, Dialogical Self, and Reflexive Interpretation: The Symbolic Source of Simulation
The Importance of the Second Person: Interpretation, Practical Knowledge, and Normative Attitudes
The Object of Understanding
Reenactment as Critique of Logical Analysis: Wittgensteinian Themes in Collingwood