Thomas M. Seebohm

This volume goes beyond presently available phenomenological analyses based on the structures and constitution of the lifeworld. It shows how the science of history is the mediator between the human and the natural sciences. It demonstrates that the distinction between interpretation and explanation does not imply a strict separation of the natural and the human sciences. Finally, it shows that the natural sciences and technology are inseparable, but that technology is one-sidedly founded in pre-scientific encounters with reality in the lifeworld. In positivism the natural sciences are sciences because they offer causal explanations testable in experiments and the humanities are human sciences only if they use methods of the natural sciences. For epistemologists following Dilthey, the human sciences presuppose interpretation and the human and natural sciences must be separated. There is phenomenology interested in psychology and the social sciences that distinguish the natural and the human sciences, but little can be found about the historical human sciences. This volume fills the gap by presenting analyses of the material foundations of the "understanding" of expressions of other persons, and of primordial recollections and expectations founding explicit expectations and predictions in the lifeworld. Next, it shows, on the basis of history as applying philological methods in interpretations of sources, the role of a universal spatio-temporal framework for reconstructions and causal explanations of "what has really happened".

This volume goes beyond presently available phenomenological analyses based on the structures and constitution of the lifeworld. It shows how the science of history is the mediator between the human and the natural sciences. It demonstrates that the distinction between interpretation and explanation does not imply a strict separation of the natural and the human sciences. Finally, it shows that the natural sciences and technology are inseparable, but that technology is one-sidedly founded in pre-scientific encounters with reality in the lifeworld. In positivism the natural sciences are sciences because they offer causal explanations testable in experiments and the humanities are human sciences only if they use methods of the natural sciences. For epistemologists following Dilthey, the human sciences presuppose interpretation and the human and natural sciences must be separated. There is phenomenology interested in psychology and the social sciences that distinguish the natural and the human sciences, but little can be found about the historical human sciences. This volume fills the gap by presenting analyses of the material foundations of the "understanding" of expressions of other persons, and of primordial recollections and expectations founding explicit expectations and predictions in the lifeworld. Next, it shows, on the basis of history as applying philological methods in interpretations of sources, the role of a universal spatio-temporal framework for reconstructions and causal explanations of "what has really happened".

The goal of the investigation is a phenomenological theory of the methods and later the methodology of the human sciences, first of all the philological interpretation of texts. The first part is a critical reflection on the historical development of hermeneutics as method of interpreting texts and the tradition including the first steps toward the emergence of scientific methodological hermeneutics. Such reflections show that the development of hermeneutics is onesidedly founded in the development of hermeneutical consciousness, i.e. the changing attitudes in the application and rejection of cultural traditions. All methods and finally methodologies are onesidedly founded in the activities of the lifeworld. The second part is a first attempt to develop an outline of a general phenomenological theory of pre-methodical and methodical understanding in the lifeworld. The third part offers a critical phenomenologically guided analysis of methodological hermeneutics.

The goal of the investigation is a phenomenological theory of the methods and later the methodology of the human sciences, first of all the philological interpretation of texts. The first part is a critical reflection on the historical development of hermeneutics as method of interpreting texts and the tradition including the first steps toward the emergence of scientific methodological hermeneutics. Such reflections show that the development of hermeneutics is onesidedly founded in the development of hermeneutical consciousness, i.e. the changing attitudes in the application and rejection of cultural traditions. All methods and finally methodologies are onesidedly founded in the activities of the lifeworld. The second part is a first attempt to develop an outline of a general phenomenological theory of pre-methodical and methodical understanding in the lifeworld. The third part offers a critical phenomenologically guided analysis of methodological hermeneutics.

The proceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress are published in three volumes which contain almost 100 essays on the prehistory of Kant's philosophy, the transcendental analytic and dialectic, Kant's practical philosophy, his anthropology, and his theories of art and science. Representing a cross-section of international (North and South American, European, Russian, and Asian) perspectives on Kant and his work, the authors of the essays included in this volume of proceedings offer a survey of the latest achievements in Kant research. Contents: Prehistory of Kant's Critical Philosophy; Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic. Contributors include: Jorge Eugenio Dotti, Paul Guyer, Halley D. Sanchez, Kent Baldner, Manfred Baum, Pio Colonnello, and Hans Seigfried. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.

The proceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress are published in three volumes which contain almost 100 essays on the prehistory of Kant's philosophy, the transcendental analytic and dialectic, Kant's practical philosophy, his anthropology, and his theories of art and science. Representing a cross-section of international (North and South American, European, Russian, and Asian) perspectives on Kant and his work, the authors of the essays included in this volume of proceedings offer a survey of the latest achievements in Kant research. Contents: Prehistory of Kant's Critical Philosophy; Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic. Contributors include: Jorge Eugenio Dotti, Paul Guyer, Halley D. Sanchez, Kent Baldner, Manfred Baum, Pio Colonnello, and Hans Seigfried. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.

This work brings together the reflections of a number of important thinkers who are concerned with rearticulating the complex interconnections between classical American pragmatism and Continental phenomenology. Thinkers as diverse as James, Mead, Dewey, Royce, Peirce, and Buchler are contrasted with Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Schutz, Gadamer, and Habermas. Thematically, these historical reflections animate discussions pertinent to both traditions. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.

This work brings together the reflections of a number of important thinkers who are concerned with rearticulating the complex interconnections between classical American pragmatism and Continental phenomenology. Thinkers as diverse as James, Mead, Dewey, Royce, Peirce, and Buchler are contrasted with Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Schutz, Gadamer, and Habermas. Thematically, these historical reflections animate discussions pertinent to both traditions. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.