History as a Science and the System of the Sciences

Thomas M Seebohm took his Dr. phil. habil. at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in 1969. Vis. professor 1970-1972 and then professor at the Pennsylvania State University and at the New School for Social Research 1973 -1984; Institutional offices: chairman of the Philosophische Seminar; Dean Fachbereich 11 (Philosophic I Pedagogik), the Universitat Mainz between 1984-1999. Guest professorships in Canada, Germany and Latvia. Extra-institutional professional offices: member of the board of directors, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology. Member of the board of the Kant - Gesellschaft e. V. Bonn; president of the Kant - Gesellschaft e.V Bonn. 1988-1990 Secretary of the Inner Circle of the Allgemeine Gesellschaftfür Philosophie in Deutschland; Honorary Member: North American Kant Society. Ballard Prize: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (for: Hermeneutics, Method and Methodology, Contributions to Phenomenology 50, 2004.)

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Phenomenological Preliminaries.- Chapter 2. The Formal Methodological Presuppositions of a Phenomenological Epistemology.- Chapter 3. Material Presuppositions of a Phenomenological Epistemology in the Structures of the Lifeworld.- Chapter 4. The Lifeworld and the System of the Sciences: First Steps toward a Phenomenological Epistemology.- Part II. The Methodology of the Historical Human Sciences.- Chapter 5. History as a Science of Interpretation.- Chapter 6. Causal Explanations in History.- Part III. The Methodology of the Natural Sciences.- Chapter 7. The Empirical Basis and the Thematic Attitude of the Natural Sciences.- Chapter 8. The Structure of Theories in the Natural Sciences.- Part IV. The Natural Sciences, the Historical Human Sciences and the Systematic Human Sciences.- Chapter 9. History and the Natural sciences.- Chapter 10. History and the Systematic Human Sciences.- Part V. Summary and Conclusion.- Index.