Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Feest, Uljana (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 21
• Subjects: History.; Philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Philosophy.

twentieth-century literature about the distinction between explanation and und- standing)? Second, can we do justice to a particular writer’s notion of that category by taking at face value what he writes about his own motivation for adopting it? In response to both types of questions, there is by n...