Social Action Explanation and Intentions in Sociology and Social Sciences

The relationship between actions and intentions has always been at the centre of an articulated debate within philosophy social sciences. On one hand, there is a growing trend to naturalize concept intention: this based on wide empirical evidence, above all in neuroscientific field, suggests that human action mainly depends cerebral biological mechanisms. other especially sociological strong tradition linking explanation, bringing them back reasoning rationality broadest sense. Also, psychological field interesting literature focusing importance understanding mental mechanisms underlying intentional describing anticipating various cognitive errors till conspiracy theories. This paper aims browse some contributions topic.