Empathy And Agency
eBook - ePub

Empathy And Agency

The Problem Of Understanding In The Human Sciences

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Empathy And Agency

The Problem Of Understanding In The Human Sciences

About this book

A crucial debate currently raging in the fields of cognitive and social science centers around general and specific approaches to understanding the actions of others. When we understand the actions of another person, do we do so on the basis of a general theory of psychology, or on the basis of an effort to place ourselves in the particular position of that specific person? Hans Herbert Kögler and Karsten R. Stueber's Empathy and Agency addresses this other issues vital to current social science in an advanced and diverse analysis of the foundations of social-scientific methodology based on recent cognitive psychology. The book serves as both an introduction to the debate for non-academic audiences and as a catalyst for further discussion for serious theorists. Empathy and Agency provides a solid foundation of the fundamental issues in social and cognitive science, but also presents the most influential paradigms in the field at this time.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9780429980466
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction: Empathy, Simulation, and Interpretation in the Philosophy of Social Science
  8. 1 Simulation and the Explanation of Action
  9. 2 The Theory of Holistic Simulation: Beyond Interpretivism and Postempiricism
  10. 3 Imitation or the Internalization of Norms: Is Twentieth-Century Social Theory Based on the Wrong Choice?
  11. 4 Simulation and Epistemic Competence
  12. 5 Understanding Other Minds and the Problem of Rationality
  13. 6 Simulation Theory and the Verstehen School: A Wittgensteinian Approach
  14. 7 From Simulation to Structural Transposition: A Diltheyan Critique of Empathy and Defense of Verstehen
  15. 8 Empathy, Dialogical Self, and Reflexive Interpretation: The Symbolic Source of Simulation
  16. 9 The Importance of the Second Person: Interpretation, Practical Knowledge, and Normative Attitudes
  17. 10 The Object of Understanding
  18. 11 Reenactment as Critique of Logical Analysis: Wittgensteinian Themes in Collingwood
  19. References
  20. About the Editors and Contributors
  21. Index