Felix Kaufmann's theory and method in the social sciences / edited by Robert S. Cohen, Ingeborg K. Helling.
2014
H61
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Felix Kaufmann's theory and method in the social sciences / edited by Robert S. Cohen, Ingeborg K. Helling.
ISBN
9783319028453 (electronic book)
3319028456 (electronic book)
9783319028446
3319028448
3319028456 (electronic book)
9783319028446
3319028448
Published
Berlin : Springer, 2014.
Language
English
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Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-02845-3 doi
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H61
Dewey Decimal Classification
300.72
Summary
This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's (1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936). In this book, Kaufmann develops a general theory of knowledge of the social sciences in his role as a cross-border commuter between Husserl's phenomenology, Kelsen's pure theory of law and the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle. This multilayered inquiry connects the value-oriented reflections of a general philosophy of science with the specificity of the methods and theories of the social sciences, as opposed to abstract natural science and psychology. The core focus of the study is the attempt to elucidate how and under what conditions scientific knowledge about social facts, empirically justified and theoretically embedded, can be obtained. The empirical basis of knowledge within the social sciences forms a phenomenological concept of experience. According to Kaufmann, this concept of experience exhibits a complex structure. Within the meaning-interpretation of human action as the core of knowledge in the social sciences, this structure reaches out across the isolated act of verification toward the synthesis of external and internal experiences. The book opens with a detailed and useful introduction by Ingeborg K. Helling, which introduces the historical and theoretical background of Kaufmann's study and specifically illuminates his relation to Alfred Schtz and John Dewey. Finally, it contains interviews with and letters to members of his family, colleagues and students.
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Translated from the German.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science ; v. 303.
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