Understanding and Explanation: A Transcendental-Pragmatic Perspective - Brossura

Apel, Karl-Otto

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ISBN 10: 0262510413 ISBN 13: 9780262510417

Casa editrice: MIT Press, 1988

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

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

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Book by KarlOtto Apel

Su questa edizione

• Editore: MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0262510413
• ISBN 13: 9780262510417
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 317