Thomas Seebohm on the Foundations of the Sciences (eBook)

An Analysis and Critical Appraisal

Thomas Nenon (Herausgeber)

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2020
237 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-23661-8 (ISBN)

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This book explores the work of Thomas Seebohm (1934-2014), a leading phenomenologist and hermeneuticist. It features papers that offer a critical and constructive dialogue about Seebohm’s analyses and their implications for the sciences. The net result is an in-depth study and a helpful overview of Seebohm’s general approach and his specific views on various areas of modern science.

The contributors focus especially upon his final text, History as a Science and the System of the Sciences. They view this as the culmination and summary of his historical and phenomenological investigations into the foundations, nature, and limits of modern sciences. This includes not just history but the Geisteswissenschaften more generally, along with the social and natural sciences as well. The essays in this volume reflect that range.

This volume presents insightful discussions about the nature and legitimacy of the human sciences as sciences and the unique character ofthe social sciences. It will be of interest not just as a matter of historical scholarship, but also and above all as an important contribution to phenomenology and to the philosophy of science and the sciences as such. It deserves attention by scholars from any philosophical tradition interested in thinking about the foundations of their disciplines and a philosophy of science that includes, but is not limited to, the natural sciences.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.2.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Contributions to Phenomenology
• Reihe/Serie: Contributions to Phenomenology
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 237 p.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Alfred Schutz and Thomas Seebohm • Classical vs. Non-Standard Mereology • Community of Scientists and Objectivity • Copenhagen Interpretation • Eidetic Methodology • Formal vs. Regional Ontology • Geisteswissenschaften • History as a Science and the System of the Sciences • History, the Sciences, and disinterested observers • Motivations in the Social Sciences • Natural Scientific Methodologies and the Social Sciences • Ontological Differences Underpinning the Social Sciences • Ontology of Chemical Wholes • Phenomenological Reduction • philosophy of nature • Seebohm and Husserl on the Humanitites • Seebohm's Hermeneutics • Transcendental Phenomenology
• ISBN-10: 3-030-23661-7 / 3030236617
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-23661-8 / 9783030236618