The Intentional Approach in Social Sciences: A Structuralist View of Intentional Scientific Theories

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Published: Jan 15, 2020
Issue: No. 50 (2020): Núm. 50 (2020): Praxis Filosófica No. 50
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  Juan Manuel Jaramillo Uribe Faculty of Humanities, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Abstract

In the face of the different models of explanation in the sciences (nomological-deductive, genetic, teleological, dispositional ...) the intentional explanation has special relevance in the social sciences and in the explanation / prediction of the behavior of some artifactual entities. This explanation allows to differentiate the social sciences from the natural ones. In this paper it is proposed to present, in the context of the conception of metatheoretical structuralism, this intentional explanation and present some cases of its application in theories such as the Theory of rational choice, game theory and decision theory when such theories are applied in the social sciences, especially in economics.

Keywords
  • Natural and social sciences
  • Intentionality
  • Intentional Theories
  • Metatheoretical Structuralism
Author Biography

Juan Manuel Jaramillo Uribe, Faculty of Humanities, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.

Doctor of Philosophy from the Universidad de Antioquia under the direction of Dr. C. Ulises Moulines (U. of Munich). Retired from the Universidad del Valle where he was professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy, Secretary General and Rector (E) on several occasions. Since 2000 member of the international research group "Historical reconstructions and rational reconstructions" based in Buenos Aires. Philosophical interests are centered on themes linked to German Idealism, especially Kant), analytical philosophy, philosophical semantics and the philosophy of science (especially the structuralist meta-theoretical program of reconstruction of theories). Among his publications he is the author of Es la ciencia una rama de la literatura fantástica. Pretexto para una reflexión sobre el realismo (2001); Teoría intuitiva de conjuntos (2005); Filosofía de la tecnología (2008) and co-author of Thomas Kuhn (1999); El camino desde Kuhn. La inconmensurabilidad hoy (2012); La filosofía de la ciencia en Iberoamérica: Metateoría Estructural (2012); Monográfico de Ágora: Nuevas contribuciones iberoamericanas a la metateoría estructuralista (2012); Monográfico de Perspectivas: Dossiê filosofia da ciência no século xxi - contribuições da metateoria estruturalista (2018); Exploraciones pluralistas. Las filosofías de C. Ulises Moulines (in press). In addition to numerous articles in national and international journals.

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Jaramillo Uribe, J. M. (2020). The Intentional Approach in Social Sciences: A Structuralist View of Intentional Scientific Theories. Praxis Filosófica, (50), 141–160. https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i50.8783
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