Historical perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen

Introduction

Uljana Feest

1-13

Epistemological distinctions and cultural politics

educational reform and the naturwissenschaft/geisteswissenschaft distinction in nineteenth-century Germany

Denise Phillips

15-35

Vestiges of the book of nature

religious experience and hermeneutic practices in protestant German theology, ca. 1900

Bernhard Kleeberg

37-59

How Wilhelm Dilthey influenced popular science writing

Kurd Laßwitz's "Homchen. Ein Tiermärchen aus der oberen Kreide"

Safia Azzouni

61-79

Explaining history

Hippolyte Taine's philosophy of historical science

Philipp Müller

81-99

Understanding and explanation in France

from Maine de Biran's méthode psychologique to Durkheim's les formes Élémentaires de la vie religieuse

Warren Schmaus

101-120

Instead of erklären and verstehen

William James on human understanding

David E. Leary

121-140

Erklären, verstehen, and embodied rationalities

scientific praxis as regional ontology

Katherine Arens

141-159

British thought on the relations between the natural sciences and the humanities, c. 1870–1910

Roger Smith

161-185

Accounting for the unity of experience in Dilthey, Rickert, Bradley and Ward

Christopher Pincock

187-206

Individuality and interpretation in nineteenth-century German historicism

Jacques Bos

207-220

Shaping disciplinary boundaries

scientific practice and politics in the methodenstreit between the German historical school and the austrian school of economics

Filomena De Sousa

221-240

From Mill via Von Kries to Max Weber

causality, explanation, and understanding

Michael Heidelberger

241-265

Social science between neo-Kantianism and philosophy of life

the cases of Weber, Simmel, and Mannheim

Daniel Šuber

267-290

Opposition to verstehen in orthodox logical empiricism

Thomas Uebel

291-309