Suchergebnisse

One: Methods of Concept Formation -- I. Metrical Concepts and Measurement in the Humanities -- II. Concepts with Family Meanings in the Humanities -- III. Persuasive Function of Language -- Two: Applications -- A. Aesthetics and Art Theory -- IV. Informational Aesthetics -- V. The Concept of Kitsch -- VI. The Concept of Happening -- VII. Interpretation of Art Works -- VIII. Beauty and its Socio-Psychological Determinants -- B. Social Sciences -- IX. The Concept of Indicator in the Social Sciences -- X. Semiotic Theory of Culture -- XI. Theory of Questions and its Applications in the Social Sciences -- Author Index.

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.