Essays on Explanation and Understanding

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I/Approaches to Teleology, Intentionality, and Historical Understanding.
• Causal and Historical Explanation.
• Against Reductionism and Purism : Tertium Datur.
• Is Transcendental Hermeneutics Possible?.
• The Intentions of Intentionality.
• Comments on Professor Hintikka’s Paper.
• Reply to J. N. Findlay.
• II/Causality and Intervention.
• Causality and Action.
• Causality and History.
• An Analysis of Causality.
• Explanation and Understanding of Human Behavior.
• III/Human Action and its Explanation.
• Human Abilities and Dynamic Modalities.
• On Deciding.
• Intention and Practical Inference.
• The Causal Theory of Action.
• Explanation and Understanding in History.
• Inductive Explanation, Propensity, and Action.
• IV/Replies to Commentators. Second thoughts on Explanation and Understanding.
• Replies.
• Determinism and the Study of Man.
• Index of Names.