 Sometimes this approach has been referred to as “the verstehen tradition”—in honor of its special roots in the German tradition, and leaving untranslated the German word for understanding (Martin 2000; Feest 2010). Alternative labels for this approach include “the interpretative tradition”, “the historicist tradition”, “the hermeneutic tradition”, and “the humanistic tradition” (for overviews, see Hiley et al. 1992; Stueber 2012). For convenience, we will refer to this as “the humanistic tradition”. It is not an essential part of this tradition that human beings can only be understood by reconstructing their perspectives, but the tradition does characteristically claim that there is special value in trying to do so. It also typically claims that taking up perspectives “from within” requires distinctive cognitive resources and perhaps distinctive methods—resources and methods that are not clearly needed when we attempt to understand natural phenomena.