The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy: Around Logical Empiricism

305 Pages·2022·10.303 MB·English

by  Adam Tamas Tuboly

THE HISTORY OF
UNDERSTANDING IN
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
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THE HISTORY OF
UNDERSTANDING IN
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
AROUND LOGICAL
EMPIRICISM
Edited by
Adam Tamas Tuboly
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Names: Tuboly, Adam Tamas, editor.
Title: The history of understanding in analytic philosophy : around
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Description: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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CONTENTS

List of Contributors ix
ACknowLedgments xiii
Introduction 1
Adam Tamas Tuboly
Part I Before Logical Empiricism
1 Georg Simmel on Historical Understanding 13
Martin Kusch
2 Understanding, Psychology, and the Human Sciences: Dilthey
and Völkerpsychologie 39
Lydia Patton
3 The Heuristic and Epistemic Account of Verstehen in
Twentieth-century American Philosophy 63
Fons Dewulf
Part II Logical Empiricism
4 Is There a Hermeneutic Aspect in Carnap’s Aufbau? 87
Christian Damböck
viii CONTENTS
5 More on Neurath on Verstehen: The Rejection of Weber’s
Ideal Type Methodology 103
Thomas Uebel
6 Neurath’s Debate with Horkheimer and the Critique of Verstehen 135
Andreas Vrahimis
7 Victor Kraft on Verstehen 161
Jan Radler

Part III After Logical Empiricism
8 The Leopard Does Not Change Its Spots: Naturalism and the
Argument against Methodological Pluralism in the Sciences 185
Jonas Ahlskog and Giuseppina D’Oro
9 Georg Henrik von Wright on Understanding (and Explanation) 209
Henriikka Hannula
10 Psychological Understanding 229
Tamás Demeter
11 Verstehen Redux: Understanding in Contemporary Epistemology 261
Aaron Preston
index 285
CONTRIBUTORS
Jonas Ahlskog is a postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy and History of Ideas
at the Department of Philosophy at Å bo Akademi University, Finland. He
works on the philosophy of history and the history of ideas. He has published
The Primacy of Method in Historical Research: Philosophy of History and
the Perspective of Meaning (2021), and he has articles in the Journal of the
Philosophy of History , Rethinking History , and Acta Philosophica Fennica .
Giuseppina D’Oro is Reader in Philosophy at Keele University, United
Kingdom. She is interested in the metaphilosophical underpinnings of the
reasons vs causes debate and is currently an executive editor for the J ournal
of the Philosophy of History . She is the author of C ollingwood and the
Metaphysics of Experience (2002) and of numerous papers on the philosophy
and metaphilosophy of R.G. Collingwood. She co-edited Collingwood
on Philosophical Methodology (2018), The Cambridge Companion to
Philosophical Methodology (2017), Reasons and Causes (2013), and An
Essay on Philosophical Method (2005).
Christian Damb ö ck is a Privatdozent at the Philosophical Institute, University
of Vienna. He works on the philosophy of science and the humanities in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on logical
empiricism. He is the author of < Deutscher Empirismus> (2017) and the
editor of, among others, Infl uences on the Aufbau (2016), Y oung Carnap in
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