%0 Journal Article
%T Is Verstehen Scientific Understanding?
%A Kareem Khalifa
%J Philosophy of the Social Sciences
%@ 1552-7441
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0048393119847104
%X Many have argued that the human sciences feature a unique form of understanding (Verstehen) that is absent from the natural sciences. However, in the last decade or so, epistemologists and philosophers of natural science have been proffering analyses of a kind of natural-scientific understanding. Using examples from educational psychology and anthropology, I argue that there are prima facie reasons to think these recent accounts of natural-scientific understanding impose necessary conditions on Verstehen. This suggests that any claim about Verstehen¡¯s distinctiveness faces hitherto-unappreciated burdens of proof
%K understanding
%K Verstehen
%K explanation
%K interpretation
%K naturalism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0048393119847104