A Pragmatic Theory of Explanation
A Pragmatic Theory of Explanation
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实用主义的解释理论
DOI：
10.1007/978-94-009-6317-7_10
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发表时间：
1984
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
R. Tuomela
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作者：
R. Tuomela
科学解释可以从问答的角度来探讨。因此，它们可以被看作是一个提问者（被解释者）和一个回答者（解释者）作为其代理人的社会行动。这种社会行动发生在一定的科学社会背景下，我们很快就会看到这一点。我们下面的目标是双重的。首先，我们将勾勒出一个解释的实用主义理论，我们将在后面，特别是在第11章中，用它来解释社会行动，它似乎很适合于解释社会行动。第二，作为一个副产品，可以说，我们得到了一个解释的社会行动的帐户，以说明我们的社会行动理论，并补充我们以前提出的行动的例子。因此，尽管在这里提出一个科学解释理论可能有些不合时宜，但我们认为，上述两个原因确实证明了我们对解释理论领域的短暂探索是正确的。
Scientific explanations can be approached from the point of view of querying and answering. Thus they can be viewed as social actions with a questioner (the explainee) and an answer-giver (the explainer) as its agents. This social action takes place in a certain scientific social context, as we shall soon see. Our aims below are twofold. First, we shall sketch a pragmatic theory of explanation which we shall later, especially in Chapter 11, use to account for the explanation of social actions, to which it seems to be well suited. Secondly, as a by-product, as it were, we obtain an account of the social action of explaining to illustrate our theory of social action and to complement our previously presented examples of actions. Thus, while a presentation of a theory of scientific explanation may be felt to be somewhat out of place here, we think that the mentioned two reasons do justify our brief excursion to the field of the theory of explanation.