Understanding and Explanation

A Transcendental-Pragmatic Perspective
Neuauflage 1988
ISBN: 978-0-262-51041-7
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought

Karl-Otto Apel, as much as any German theorist, bridges the gulf between Anglo-American and continental thought in both the style and content of his work. Understanding and Explanation clarifies the "explanation versus understanding" debate that has become central to the philosophy of the social sciences. Apel reexamines the debate over the logic of the social sciences from the perspective of an expanded theory of science, and he proposes a resolution in transcendent-pragmatic terms. He differentiates three legitimate approaches to the social sciences, connected with three "knowledge-constitutive" interests: deductive-nomological sciences, historical-hermeneutic sciences, and critical-reconstructive sciences.Understanding and Explanation is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Apel, Karl-Otto

Weitere Mitwirkende

Warnke, Georgia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Apel, Karl-Otto
Karl-Otto Apel holds the chair for social philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. His book is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

Warnke, Georgia
Georgia Warnke is Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Riverside.

Karl-Otto Apel holds the chair for social philosophy at the University of Frankfurt.