How to Interpret Human Actions (Including Moral Actions)

This paper presents two methods for interpreting human actions or their results with the aim of finding the underlying intention, the goal intention or the more comprehensive intention including the subject's considerations about various advantages of the chosen option as well as about its alternatives. The first interpretation method is simple and uses statistical syllogisms. The second method consists of an inference to the best explanation; it is much more elaborate but it provides more exact and detailed information. This method requires covering laws that explain the formation of intentions. Such laws are sketched too. They also cover moral actions so that the presented interpretation methods can also be used for interpreting moral actions.