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This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in
historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory
and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of
teleological explanations of human actions based on
late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy insights. In
philosophy of action, many philosophers favor causal theories of
human action. Additionally, in current philosophy of historiography
the majority view is that historians should explain historical
phenomena by their causes. This book pushes back against these
mainstream views by reviving an anti-causal view of explanation of
current and past human actions. The author argues that disciplines
that deal with human actions require a certain form of explanation,
namely a teleological or intentional explanation. This means that
past human actions and their results will have to be explained by
reasons of agents, not by causes. Therefore, historiography employs
a method of explanation which is in stark contrast to the sciences.
The author thus proposes a Verstehen (understanding) approach in
historiography and the social sciences. Historical Explanation will
be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in
philosophy of action, philosophy of history, and philosophy of the
social sciences.
Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or
rather teleological? While this is a central question in analytic
philosophy of action, it also has implications for questions about
the differences between methods of explanation in the sciences on
the one hand and in the humanities and the social sciences on the
other. Additionally, this question bears on the problem of the
appropriate form of explanations of past human actions, and
therefore it is prominently discussed by analytic philosophers of
historiography. This volume brings together causalists and
anti-causalists to address enduring philosophical questions at the
heart of this debate, as well as their implications for the
practice of historiography. Part I considers the quarrel between
causalism and anti-causalism in recent developments in the
philosophy of action. Part II presents papers by causalists and
anti-causalists that are more narrowly focused on the philosophy of
historiography.
Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or
rather teleological? While this is a central question in analytic
philosophy of action, it also has implications for questions about
the differences between methods of explanation in the sciences on
the one hand and in the humanities and the social sciences on the
other. Additionally, this question bears on the problem of the
appropriate form of explanations of past human actions, and
therefore it is prominently discussed by analytic philosophers of
historiography. This volume brings together causalists and
anti-causalists to address enduring philosophical questions at the
heart of this debate, as well as their implications for the
practice of historiography. Part I considers the quarrel between
causalism and anti-causalism in recent developments in the
philosophy of action. Part II presents papers by causalists and
anti-causalists that are more narrowly focused on the philosophy of
historiography.
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