Abstract
This paper consists in an analysis of two explanatory models of human behaviour which play a prominent role in the contemporary literature on human action. The first model - the causalist - aims at explaining action in terms of causes and general laws. The second model - the intentionalist - explains human action in terms of intentions and practical syllogism. The difficulties of both models are presented and in the last part of the essay we propose one alternative model, based on the notion of retroduction.
Highlights
This paper consists in an analysis of two explanatory models of human behaviour which play a prominent role in the contemporary literature on human action
Its importance in the philosophical literature on explanation is almost self-evident and the attempt to extend this model to the explanation of items of human behaviour would certainly lead us to review a lot of questions which are embodied in the explanatory task, such as causation, dete rminism, laws, etc
Anscombe and Von Wright will prove fruitful to the explanatory scheme to which we are going to devote the third part of this paper
Summary
This paper consists in an analysis of two explanatory models of human behaviour which play a prominent role in the contemporary literature on human action. In the second part of this paper we shall present another explanatory model, which we will call "the intentionalist approach to the explanation of hLiman action" or "intentionalism".
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