本文首先借重H. R. Alker在一九九年政治學新手冊中的文章,指陳政治學方法論得了「身心悖離的躁鬱症」,使政治學術的主題性和主體性變得偏狹而晦暗不明。基於此種反省,本文追溯Donald Moon在一九七五政治學手冊的一篇長文,主張自然科學方法論和詮釋學方法論的辯證合一。這原是一項很好的主張,可惜Moon未能徹底到底,也未曾獲得後續性的討論。Moon本人對科學解釋功能和演繹邏輯有強烈的偏好,此一傾向倒在理性抉擇學派中得到充分的發揚。所幸從一九九○年代中期之後,美國政治學內部產生許多重要反省,使政治學的辯證發展有進一步向前推動的契機。
This article is to discuss the biased development in the methodology of political science. First, we will examine H. R. Alker's criticism on ”the inauthenticity malaise in political methodology,” which have made the discipline lost its main theme and subjectivity. In line with these reflections, we will trace back to Donald Moon's 1975 article, which claimed the synthesis between scientific methodology and modern hermeneutics. Moon gave a right direction but did not carry it out. Since the mid 1990s, anyhow, political scientists have initiated a new wave of reflections on the defects of political methodology. It may create a new process of synthesis.