Defending Laws in the Social Sciences
Defending Laws in the Social Sciences
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捍卫社会科学中的法律
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1990
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H. Kincaid
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H. Kincaid
这篇文章为社会科学中的法律辩护。基于社会理论的“开放”性质、社会谓词的多重可实现性、社会规律的宏观和/或目的论性质以及信仰-欲望心理的不足，反对社会法的论点被考虑和拒绝。然后考虑更严重的问题，即社会法通常是有条件的。讨论了自然科学如何处理其他类似的法律，并论证了这样的程序在社会科学中是可能的。文章最后争辩说，至少有一些社会研究在进化生物学和生态学方面是粗略的，也是肯定的。
This article defends laws in the social sciences. Arguments against social laws are considered and rejected based on the "open" nature of social theory, the multiple realizability of social predicates, the macro and/or teleological nature of social laws, and the inadequacies of belief-desire psychology. The more serious problem that social laws are usually qualified ceteris paribus is then considered. How the natural sciences handle ceteris paribus laws is discussed and it is argued that such procedures are possible in the social sciences. The article ends by arguing that at least some social research is roughly as well as confirmed as good work in evolutionary biology and ecology.