History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy

Adam Tamas Tuboly is leader of the MTA Lendület “Values and Science” Research Group at the Research Centre for Humanities at Budapest, and Research Fellow at the ITD in the Medical School at the University of Pécs, Hungary.

• 1. Introduction, Adam Tamas TubolyPart I. Before Logical Empiricism2. Georg Simmel on Historical Understanding, Martin Kusch3. Understanding, psychology, and the human sciences: Dilthey and Völkerpsychologie, Lydia Patton4. The Heuristic and Epistemic Account of Verstehen in 20th Century American Philosophy, Fons DewulfPart II. Logical Empiricism5. Is There a Hermeneutic aspect in Carnap’s Aufbau, Christian Damböck6. More on Neurath on Verstehen: The Rejection of Weber’s Ideal-Type Nethodology, Thomas Uebel7. Andreas Vrahimis: Neurath’s Debate with Horkheimer and the Critique of Verstehen, Thomas Uebel8. Viktor Kraft on Verstehen, Jan RadlerPart III. After Logical Empiricism9. The Leopard does not Change its Spots: Naturalism and the Argument Against Methodological Pluralism in the Sciences, Jonas Ahlskog and Giuseppina D’Oro10. Georg Henrik von Wright on Understanding (and Explanation), Henriikaa Hannula11. Psychological Understanding, Tamas Demeter12. Verstehen Redux: Understanding in Contemporary Epistemology, Aaron PrestonIndex

This volume is a triumphant collection of essays. It offers a range of historical and contemporary accounts of the status of the notion of Verstehen that is unmatched by any other volume available. No volume in the near future will be able to provide scholarship of this quality and essays that work in such highly complementary yet non-redundant ways.