覆盖律解释与意向性解释

The Covering-Law Explanation and Intentional Explanation

在社会科学的解释模型中,意向性解释诉诸人的信念、期望等目的性因素;覆盖律解释旨在寻找规律。本文通过辨析这两种不同主张的根源,试图说明意向性解释与覆盖律解释的不同源于对社会科学本质的不同理解,以逻辑经验主义的科学观为平台使得覆盖律解释的努力失败,弥合意向性解释和覆盖律解释的分歧的可能性来自于突破逻辑经验主义的局限,重新看待社会科学的本质。

There are two main models in models of explanations of social sciences, They are intentional explanation and the covering - law explanation. The former looks for teleological factors, and the latter aims to laws, By analyzing the source of above two different models, we want to show that the difference comes from different understanding about the nature of social sciences and that the possibility of eliminating the difference between the two models depends on breaking through the view of science of logical empiricism.