Cassirer’s critique of culture

Ikonen, Sirkku

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“…And the introduction that Lazarus and Steinthal composed for their fi rst journal issue engages in triumphalist thinking about the historical priority of the Germanic peoples ( 1865 : 7).23Kusch (2019) identifi ed most of the posterity of V ö lkerpsychologie and drew clear connections to the impact of their work. I was reminded of Simondon's importance by a public remark by Grant Maxwell.24Ikonen (2011) cited the infl uence of V ö lkerpsychologie on Cassirer's analysis of culture, andKalmar (1987) argued that their work was infl uential on the modern concept of 'culture' generally Luft (2015). analyzed Cassirer's notion of "culture.…”

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Understanding, Psychology, and the Human Sciences: Dilthey and Völkerpsychologie

Patton¹

2022

The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy

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At the end of the eighteenth century, in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science , Kant argued that the only "true" sciences were those that could be given a mathematical foundation. He exempted psychology from the true sciences, arguing that no mathematical analysis could be given of the occurrence of thoughts and ideas. Johann Friedrich Herbart and others in the tradition of empirical psychology (later including Wundt, Fechner, and Weber) took Kant's words as a challenge, coming up with ways to quantify sensation and perception and to test them experimentally. But Kant's more fundamental distinction between mathematically based, a priori sciences and inductive, a posteriori sciences based on observation lingered.The schools of neo-Kantianism that followed took differing positions on Kant's stance. The Southwest School, or Baden School, argued for a dualism between nature and value, taking the position that beyond the objects present to us, there are also meaningful and valid relations of valuation. The realm of value can be treated scientifi cally as well ( Š uber 2009 : § 14.2.2).

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Understanding, Psychology, and the Human Sciences: Dilthey and Völkerpsychologie

Patton¹

2022

The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy

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“…The general divergence between Cassirer and Carnap has been treated in (Friedman 2000, chap. 7;Mormann 2012;Ikonen 2011). epistemological debates on the Geisteswissenschaften might have contributed to this change.…”

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Rudolf Carnap’s Incorporation of the Geisteswissenschaften in the Aufbau

Dewulf¹

2017

HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History

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This paper investigates the various ways in which Rudolf Carnap incorporated contemporary epistemological problems concerning the Geisteswissenschaften in Der logische Aufbau der Welt. I argue that Carnap defends a non-reductive incorporation of the Geisteswissenschaften within the unity of science. To this end Carnap aims to solve the problem of individuality, which was the focus of attention for important philosophers of the Geisteswissenschaften, like Dilthey, Rickert and Windelband. At the same time, Carnap also argues that his constitutional method, which transforms cultural objects to psychological or physical objects, does not imply a loss of autonomy for the Geisteswissenschaften. Besides this defense of autonomy, Carnap also incorporates several central notions of contemporary theory of the Geisteswissenschaften into his theory of the Aufbau: cultural manifestation, phenomenology of cultural experience, and the method of Verstehen.

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Carnap’s Opposition to Logic of the Geisteswissenschaften

Dewulf

2021

Veröffentlichungen Des Instituts Wiener Kreis

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In this paper I argue that Carnap in the Aufbau and in his later writings consistently conceives the humanities and the social sciences as domains of knowledge that are epistemically equal to the natural sciences. I show that Carnap was skeptical about the philosophical theories of Dilthey, Rickert and Windelband which aimed to distinguish the natural sciences from the humanities through a logical criterion. Although Carnap in the Aufbau integrated some terminology from Dilthey, Windelband and Rickert, he never accepted their philosophical questions about the humanities as legitimate. In his later writings, following Otto Neurath, he openly distanced himself from terminology that could be associated with such questions, and he never again spoke in a programmatic fashion about cultural concepts, like he had done in the Aufbau.

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Cassirer’s critique of culture

Abstract: My purpose in this paper is to look at Cassirer's relation to critical philosophy from a new perspective. Most discussions concerning Cassirer's Kantianism have so far centered on his relation to neo-Kantianism and the Marburg school.

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Understanding, Psychology, and the Human Sciences: Dilthey and Völkerpsychologie

Understanding, Psychology, and the Human Sciences: Dilthey and Völkerpsychologie

Rudolf Carnap’s Incorporation of the Geisteswissenschaften in the Aufbau

Carnap’s Opposition to Logic of the Geisteswissenschaften

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