Re: [xmca] Re: Kant and the Strange Situation

[Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu>]

Derek,

It depends of course on what one means by empathy. I've been arguing for
years that all the social sciences draw implicitly on our human capacity for
*understanding* the actions of others (Einfühlung?), and that our
investigations can and should be interpretive, hermeneutic. Of course many
others have made similar points. To say that genuine science is not
interpretive would be in my mind simply a false claim.

Martin


On 1/14/09 4:20 PM, "Derek Melser" <derek.melser@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, if mind/consciousness/thinking is an
> action, then, because our perception of others' actions always requires
> empathy, and because empathy is not an acceptable observation method in the
> sciences, there will never be a genuine science of
> mind/consciousness/thinking. But at least we'll no longer be bamboozled by
> the mind/body problem...


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