How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach
In How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach, Sam S. Rakover proposes a critical review of explanation models (procedures); presents explanation as an essential part of research methodology; depicts understanding as based on explanation models and other procedures; provides a list of basic ideas common to most explanation models; supplies an approach that unifies mechanistic explanations as used by the sciences with mentalistic explanations that are based on one's inner world; and provides a general procedure for explaining individual behavior.
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How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach
In How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach, Sam S. Rakover proposes a critical review of explanation models (procedures); presents explanation as an essential part of research methodology; depicts understanding as based on explanation models and other procedures; provides a list of basic ideas common to most explanation models; supplies an approach that unifies mechanistic explanations as used by the sciences with mentalistic explanations that are based on one's inner world; and provides a general procedure for explaining individual behavior.
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How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach

How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach

by Sam S. Rakover
How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach

How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach

by Sam S. Rakover

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In How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach, Sam S. Rakover proposes a critical review of explanation models (procedures); presents explanation as an essential part of research methodology; depicts understanding as based on explanation models and other procedures; provides a list of basic ideas common to most explanation models; supplies an approach that unifies mechanistic explanations as used by the sciences with mentalistic explanations that are based on one's inner world; and provides a general procedure for explaining individual behavior.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498536691
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 12/20/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 283
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Sam S. Rakover is professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Understanding and Explanation
Chapter 2: Models of Explanation (I): Natural Sciences
Chapter 3: Models of Explanation (II): Natural and Social Sciences
Chapter 4: Reflections on Models of Explanation
Chapter 5: Methodological Dualism (MD) and the Multi-Explanation Framework (MEF) (I) Theoretical and Empirical Basis
Chapter 6: Methodological Dualism (MD) and the Multi-Explanation Framework (MEF) (II): Setting Up
Chapter 7: A Proposed General Explanation Procedure (GEP) for Understanding an Individual’s Behavior
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