Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography: Causal and Teleological Approaches

ISBN-13: 9781032177953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 284 str.

Gunnar Schumann

Opis

Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or rather teleological? 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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Gunnar Schumann

Part I: Causal vs. Teleological Explanation of Action

2. Causalism: On Action Explanation and Causal Deviance

Alfred Mele

3. Why and How? Teleological and Causal Concepts in Action Explanation

George F. Schueler

4. Rationalizing Principles and Causal Explanation

Guido Löhrer and Scott R. Sehon

5. On an Imaginary Dialogue Between a Causalist and an Anti-causalist

Giuseppina D’Oro

6. Reasons, Causes, Desires, and Dispositions

Severin Schroeder

7. Objectivism and Causalism about Reasons for Action

Hans-Johann Glock and Eva Schmidt

8. Are Reasons Like Shampoo?

Constanine Sandis

Part II: Causal vs. Teleological Explanation in Historiography

9. Counterfactual Causality and Historical Explanations

Doris Gerber

10. Beyond Causalism and Acausalism

Harold Kincaid

11. Two Methods in History

Thomas Keutner

12. An Anti-causal Theory of Action as Basis for Historical Explanations. A Sketch

Gunnar Schumann

13. Meanings and Mechanisms: An Actor-centered Approach to Historical Explanation

Daniel Little

14. The Origins of Historiographic Causation

Aviezer Tucker

O autorze

Gunnar Schumann is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany