Author: Apel, Karl-Otto.
Title: Understanding and Explanation : a transcendental pragmatic perspective.
Description: Translated by Georgia Warnke. Cambridge, MA. : The MIT Press, 1984. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xxxiii, 292 pp. ; 24 cm. (Studies in contemporary German social thought). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Karl-Otto Apel, as much as any German theorist, bridges the gulf between Anglo-American and continental thought in both the style and content of his work. Understanding and Explanation clarifies the explanation versus understanding debate that has become central to the philosophy of the social sciences. Apel reexamines the debate over the logic of the social sciences from the perspective of an expanded theory of science, and he proposes a resolution in transcendent-pragmatic terms. He differentiates three legitimate approaches to the social sciences, connected with three knowledge-constitutive interests: deductive-nomological sciences, historical-hermeneutic sciences, and critical-reconstructive sciences. ISBN 9780262010795.

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