Empathy and agency

Empathy and agency: the problem of understanding in the human sciences

by Kögler, Hans-Herbert Stueber, Karsten R.

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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 so as to render the beliefs, intentions, and actions of other human beings intelligible? These are the leading questions that a group of well-establ…

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  • Full title :Empathy and agency : the problem of understanding in the human sciences / edited by Hans Herbert Kögler, Karsten R. Stueber.

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).

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2000.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Westview Press
  • Place of Publication:Boulder, Colo
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2000.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (ix, 318 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780786743445, 0786743441, 9780429980466, 0429980469
  • oclc:ocn171204141
  • LC Classification:BF64
  • Dewey Decimal:128/.4

Table of Contents

Introduction : Empathy, simulation, and interpretation in the philosophy of social science / Hans Herbert Kögler and Karsten R. Stueber -- Simulation and the explanation of action / Robert M. Gordon -- The theory of holistic simulation : beyond interpretivism and postempiricism / Georg Vielmetter -- Imitation or the internalization of norms : is twentieth-century social theory based on the wrong choice? / Stephen Turner -- Simulation and epistemic competence / David Henderson and Terence Horgan -- Understanding other minds and the problem of rationality / Karsten R. Stueber -- Simulation theory and the Verstehen school : a Wittgensteinian approach / Theodore R. Schatzki -- From simulation to structural transposition : a Diltheyan critique of empathy and defense of Verstehen / Rudolf A. Makkreel -- Empathy, dialogical self, and reflexive interpretation : the symbolic source of simulation / Hans Herbert Kögler -- The importance of the second person : interpretation, practical knowledge, and normative attitudes / James Bohman -- The object of understanding / Paul A. Roth -- Reenactment as critque of logical analysis : Wittgensteinian themes in Collingwood / Simon Blackburn.

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Subjects

Empathie Empathy empathy Nurturing behavior PHILOSOPHY -- Movements Psychologie -- Philosophie Psychology -- Philosophy Science and psychology Sciences et psychologie Simulation theory Sociale wetenschappen Verstehende Methode

Writers

Kögler, Hans-Herbert Stueber, Karsten R.

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