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Empathy and agency : the problem of understanding in the human sciences / edited by Hans Herbert Kögler, Karsten R. Stueber.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology--Philosophy.
- Psychology.
- Science and psychology.
- Empathy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; London, [England] : Routledge, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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 so as to render the beliefs, intentions, and actions of other human beings intelligible? These are the leading questions that a group of well-established social philosophers explore in this volume in light of the most recent (and hotly debated) find
- Contents:
- [ CONTENTS ]; Preface; INTRODUCTION: Empathy, Simulation, and Interpretation in the Philosophy of Social Science ( Hans Herbert Kogler and Karsten R. Stueber ); CHAPTER ONE: Simulation and the Explanation of Action ( Robert M. Gordon ); CHAPTER TWO: The Theory of Holistic Simulation: Beyond Interpretivism and Postempiricism ( Georg Vielmetter ); CHAPTER THREE: Imitation or the Internalization of Norms: Is Twentieth-Century Social Theory Based on the Wrong Choice? ( Stephen Turner ); CHAPTER FOUR: Simulation and Epistemic Competence ( David Henderson and Terence Horgan )
- CHAPTER FIVE: Understanding Other Minds and the Problem of Rationality ( Karsten R. Stueber )CHAPTER SIX: Simulation Theory and the Verstehen School: A Wittgensteinian Apporach ( Theodore R. Schatzki ); CHAPTER SEVEN: From Simulation to Structural Trasnposition: A Diltheyan Critique of Empathy and Defense of Verstehen ( Rudolf A. Makkreel ); CHAPTER EIGHT: Empathy, Dialogical Self, and Reflexive Interpretation: The Symbolic Source of Simulation ( Hans Herbert Kogler )
- CHAPTER NINE: The Importance of the Second Person: Interpretation, Practical Knowledge, and Normative Attitudes ( James Bohman )CHAPTER TEN: The Object of Understanding ( Paul A. Roth ); CHAPTER ELVEN: Reenactment as Critique of Logical Analysis: Wittgensteinian Themes in Collingwood ( Simon Blackburn ); REFERENCES; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; NAMES INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-98046-9
- 1-4294-8651-1
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