History as a Science and the System of the Sciences Phenomenological Investigations

History as a Science and the System of the Sciences Phenomenological Investigations / by Thomas M. Seebohm.

This volume goes beyond presently available phenomenological analyses based on the structures and constitution of the lifeworld. It shows how the science of history is the mediator between the human and the natural sciences. It demonstrates that the distinction between interpretation and explanation...

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Main Author: Seebohm, Thomas M. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 77
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Subjects:
Phenomenology .
Epistemology.
Philosophy and science.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Phenomenological Preliminaries
  • Chapter 2. The Formal Methodological Presuppositions of a Phenomenological Epistemology
  • Chapter 3. Material Presuppositions of a Phenomenological Epistemology in the Structures of the Lifeworld
  • Chapter 4. The Lifeworld and the System of the Sciences: First Steps toward a Phenomenological Epistemology
  • Part II. The Methodology of the Historical Human Sciences
  • Chapter 5. History as a Science of Interpretation
  • Chapter 6. Causal Explanations in History
  • Part III. The Methodology of the Natural Sciences
  • Chapter 7. The Empirical Basis and the Thematic Attitude of the Natural Sciences
  • Chapter 8. The Structure of Theories in the Natural Sciences
  • Part IV. The Natural Sciences, the Historical Human Sciences and the Systematic Human Sciences
  • Chapter 9. History and the Natural sciences
  • Chapter 10. History and the Systematic Human Sciences
  • Part V. Summary and Conclusion
  • Index.

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