Volume 42 (1987), 3

In the paper the social reconstruction is characterized to which the strategy of acceleration of the social-economic development of socialist countries as well as the reconstruction of social sciences (the turn of social sciences towards practice, the turn of practice towards social sciences, substantial changes of the relationship of natural, social and technical… Read more

In the paper the author shows that the classification of fundamental methodological conceptions, based on the criteria of the type of laws and methods, makes it possible to compare the given conceptions.

These classifications reflect certain stages in the development of the methodologies of sciences, their subject-matter, various problems and ways of their… Read more

In the paper the relationship between explanation and interpretation in the theories of social sciences is studied. The specific character of these two functions is viewed from the aspect of the possibility to exploit practically the theory in the activity of social subjects. The author underlines that the scientific cognition in itself is not an instruction for a… Read more

In the paper some aspects of explanation and understanding in the historical and social cognition are investigated. The author draws attention to various interpretations of „explanation“ and indicates a way how to differ between explanation and simple description.

In the paper the fact is emphasized that various conceptions of intentional explanation of… Read more