本书是波士顿哲学研究论丛第71卷。书中收录的十篇文章均为1973—1980年期间召开的波士顿哲学报告会的论文。编者在前言中指出,过去,社会科学总是试图模拟自然科学。近二十年来出现了相反的趋势:人们开始考虑,与人类活动、理性、社会历史的实践和结构密切相关的社会科学对自然科学 This book is volume 71 of the Boston Philosophical Research Symposium. The ten articles included in the book are papers from the Boston Philosophy Symposium held between 1973 and 1980. In the preface, the editor pointed out that in the past, social science always tried to simulate natural science. The opposite trend has appeared in the past two decades: people began to consider that the social sciences that are closely related to the practice and structure of human activities, reason, social history,