ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the problems about why uncovering laws of human action is so difficult and then shows social science how to proceed the way natural science does. It devotes to the notion of 'intentionality'. This is a term philosophers employ with a meaning related to but different from the ordinary meaning, which contrasts intentional with accidental behavior. The chapter examines anyone who needs to understand the importance attached to the notion of 'intentionality' in Continental philosophy and its philosophy of social science will need to be acquainted with the difficult matters. The logical connection argument is no longer widely advanced in the philosophy of social science, and to that extent the discussion of the chapter has the character of an exposition of a bit of the twentieth-century history of the subject. The immediate upshot of the intentionality of action and its determinants is that it seems to make the causal approach to human action impossible.
