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Index
Empathy and Agency
The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Empathy, Simulation, and Interpretation in the Philosophy of Social Science
1. Two Philosophical Camps
2. Simulation Theory Versus Theory Theory
3. The Debate About the Logical Structure of Action Explanations
4. Rule Following and Understanding a Primitive Society
5. Empathy as the Method of the Human Sciences?
6. Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Turn from Empathy to Dialogue
7. Simulation Theory and the Erklären-Verstehen Debate in the Social Sciences
8. Simulation Theory and Social Science: The Current Debate
Notes
Chapter One
Simulation and the Explanation of Action
1. A Shortcoming of Predecessor Views
2. The Move to Mental Explanation
3. Why Causation Rather Than Counterfactuals?
4. But Don't Counterfactuals Rest on Laws?
5. A Court Case
6. The Importance of Policy Invariance
7. Simulation and the Implicit Ascription of Knowledge
Notes
Chapter Two
The Theory of Holistic Simulation: Beyond Interpretivism and Postempiricism
1. Simulation Theory
2. Naturalizing Similarity
3. The Forms of Simulation: Total and Partial
4. Holism
5. The Theory of Holistic Simulations
6. Two Kinds of Evidence
7. Beyond Observation and Participation
8. Beyond Postempiricism and Interpretivism
9. Conclusions
Notes
Chapter Three
Imitation or the Internalization of Norms: Is Twentieth-Century Social Theory Based on the Wrong Choice?
1. Enculturation
2. Understanding and Norms: The Conventional View
3. Fundamental Psychological Mechanisms: The Alternative Approach
4. Explaining Our Capacity to Understand
5. Culture Versus Psychological Universals
6. Congeniality and Explanatory Burdens
Notes
Chapter Four
Simulation and Epistemic Competence
1. Naturalized Epistemology
2. Clarifying the Question, What Is the Epistemic Role of Simulation?
3. One Role for Simulation
4. The Dynamic Duo
5. On the Social Sciences
Notes
Chapter Five
Understanding Other Minds and the Problem of Rationality
1. Simulation Theory and Rational Agency
2. Charity, Simulation, and Rationality
3. Cognitive Extrapolation and the Limits of Simulation
4. Conclusion
Notes
Chapter Six
Simulation Theory and the Verstehen School: A Wittgensteinian Approach
1. Access and Action
2. Explaining Action via Mentality
3. Simulation and Technical Vocabulary
Notes
Chapter Seven
From Simulation to Structural Transposition: A Diltheyan Critique of Empathy and Defense of Verstehen
1. Dilthey's Structural Psychology of Understanding
2. The Understanding of Individuality and Transposition
3. The Cultural Embeddedness of Understanding
Notes
Chapter Eight
Empathy, Dialogical Self, and Reflexive Interpretation: The Symbolic Source of Simulation
1. Introduction: Simulation Theory Versus Hermeneutic Theory
2. Simulation and the Idea of Interpretive Immediacy
3. The Dialogical Constitution of the Interpretive Self
4. Perspective Taking, Social Power, and Critical Reflexivity
Notes
Chapter Nine
The Importance of the Second Person: Interpretation, Practical Knowledge, and Normative Attitudes
1. The Performative Attitude of Interpretation: Pragmatism, Critical Theory, and Practical Knowledge
2. Interpretation as Practical Knowledge: Beyond Simulation Theory and Theory Theory
3. The Normative Attitude of the Interpreter: A Dialogical Account
4. Conclusion: Interpretation and the Normativity of the Human Sciences
Notes
Chapter Ten
The Object of Understanding
1. Historical Realism: A View from Nowhere
2. Narrative Realism: A Myth of the Given
3. Historical Naturalism: Dualisms Lost, the World Regained
Notes
Chapter Eleven
Reenactment as Critique of Logical Analysis: Wittgensteinian Themes in Collingwood
1. The Critique of Logical Positivism
2. The Objectivity of Thought
3. Determining Mental Content Through Reenactment
Conclusion
Notes
References
About the Editors and Contributors
Names Index
Subject Index
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