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How do we, as interpreters and theorists in the human and social sciences, understand agency? What are the methods, models, and mediating theoretical frameworks that allow us to give a reliable and adequate account of beliefs, actions, and cultural practices? More specifically, how can we as interpretive analysts employ our own cognitive capacities
Introduction: Empathy, Simulation, and Interpretation in the Philosophy of Social Science -- 1 Simulation and the Explanation of Action -- 2 The Theory of Holistic Simulation: Beyond Interpretivism and Postempiricism -- 3 Imitation or the Internalization of Norms: Is Twentieth-Century Social Theory Based on the Wrong Choice? -- 4 Simulation and Epistemic Competence -- 5 Understanding Other Minds and the Problem of Rationality -- 6 Simulation Theory and the Verstehen School: A Wittgensteinian Approach -- 7 From Simulation to Structural Transposition: A Diltheyan Critique of Empathy and Defense of Verstehen -- 8 Empathy, Dialogical Self, and Reflexive Interpretation: The Symbolic Source of Simulation -- 9 The Importance of the Second Person: Interpretation, Practical Knowledge, and Normative Attitudes -- 10 The Object of Understanding -- 11 Reenactment as Critique of Logical Analysis: Wittgensteinian Themes in Collingwood
