Overview
- Outlines the methodologies of the natural, the historical-philological and the social human sciences
- Shows that history can serve as a bridge between the natural sciences and the sciences of understanding
- Justifies the application of causal explanations in the historical sciences
Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 77)
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Keywords
- Formal sciences versus material sciences
- Foundations of the sciences in the Iifeworld
- Human sciences versus natural sciences
- Husserl and the human sciences
- Husserl and the natural sciences
- Interpretation versus explanation
- Phenomenological and analytical philosophy of science
- Phenomenological epistemology
- Phenomenological mereology
- Science and technology
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Phenomenological Preliminaries
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The Methodology of the Historical Human Sciences
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The Methodology of the Natural Sciences
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The Natural Sciences, the Historical Human Sciences, and the Systematic Human Sciences
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Summary and Conclusions
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: History as a Science and the System of the Sciences
Book Subtitle: Phenomenological Investigations
Authors: Thomas M. Seebohm
Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13587-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13586-1Published: 21 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38503-7Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13587-8Published: 09 April 2015
Series ISSN: 0923-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 443
Topics: Phenomenology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science