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Empathy and agency : the problem of understanding in the human sciences /
How do we, as interpreters and theorists in the human and social sciences, understand agency? What are the methods, models, and mediating theoretical frameworks that allow us to give a reliable and adequate account of beliefs, actions, and cultural practices? More specifically, how can we as interpr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | How do we, as interpreters and theorists in the human and social sciences, understand agency? What are the methods, models, and mediating theoretical frameworks that allow us to give a reliable and adequate account of beliefs, actions, and cultural practices? More specifically, how can we as interpretive analysts employ our own cognitive capacities so as to render the beliefs, intentions, and actions of other human beings intelligible? These are the leading questions that a group of well-established social philosophers explore in this volume in light of the most recent (and hotly debated). |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 318 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-301) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780786743445 0786743441 9780429980466 0429980469 |