Hegel's transcendental induction / Peter Simpson. [electronic resource]

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Simpson, Peter, 1961-

Series:

• SUNY series in Hegelian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831--Contributions in logic.
• Induction (Logic).
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 159 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1998.

Summary:

Hegel's Transcendental Induction challenges the orthodox account of Hegelian phenomenology as a hyper-rationalism, arguing that Hegel's insistence on the primacy of experience in the development of scientific knowledge amounts to a kind of empiricism, or inductive epistemology. While the inductive element does not exclude an emphasis on deductive demonstration as well, Hegel's phenomenological description of knowledge demonstrates why knowing becomes scientific only to the extent that it recognizes its dependence on experience. Simpson's argument closely parallels Hegel's own in the Phenomenology of Spirit, highlighting those sections, like Hegel's analysis of mastery and slavery, that contribute to the argument that knowing is both vulnerable and responsive to the way in which experience resists our attempts to make sense of things. Simpson's argument connects his account of Hegelian phenomenology with traditional accounts of induction, and with a number of other commentators.

Contents:

• 1. The Experience of Conscious Life
• 2. Understanding, Desiring, and Death
• 3. Induction and the Experience of the Singular Self
• 4. The Experience of the Institutional Self
• 5. Induction and the Experience of Phenomenology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-158) and index.

ISBN:

• 1-4384-2010-2
• 0-585-05599-8