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Empathy And Agency The Problem Of Understanding In The Human Sciences
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Routledge
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Routledge
328 Pages
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Routledge
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A crucial debate currently raging in the fields of cognitive and social science centers around general and specific approaches to understanding the actions of others. When we understand the actions of another person, do we do so on the basis of a general theory of psychology, or on the basis of an effort to place ourselves in the particular position of that specific person? Hans Herbert Kögler and... Read more
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
Biography
Hans Herbert Kogler
