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Understanding Human Conduct: The Innate and Acquired Meaning of
Life presents a new and provocative model of life-meaning. The
Consciousness-Meaning (CM) model is founded on two major
assumptions: (a) consciousness is a necessary condition for meaning
and understanding, and (b) there are two types of life-meaning,
innate and acquired. The latter is divided into ordinary and
extreme meanings. The CM model successfully deals with human
behavior (e.g., crisis of life and suicide) as well as alternative
approaches based on philosophy (e.g., existentialism) and science
(e.g., evolution).
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.
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.
For some years we have been conducting at the University of Haifa
an interdisciplinary seminar on explanation in philosophy and
psychology. We habitually begin the seminar with some philosophical
reflections on explanation - an analysis of the concept and its
metaphysical underpinnings. We discuss the various models and
proceed to examine explanation in the setting of psychology. Thus,
from the outset, we have focused not only on the concept itself but
also on its application. The objective that we have set for the
seminar, attended by students from both departments, Philosophy and
Psychology, has been a critical understanding of the concept of
explanation, its use and limitations. We were keen on deepening our
understanding of the concept and on exploring its applications in
fields of knowledge other than psychology. This was the motivation
for convening an international conference on explanation and its
application. The conference took place in the spring of 1998 under
the auspices of the University of Haifa. The present book is the
fruit of this meeting. The reader should note that the second part
of the Introduction presents a detailed analytical account of the
book. We hope that this overview will facilitate efficient use of
the book by directing the reader's attention to those issues that
might be of interest to him or her.
For some years we have been conducting at the University of Haifa
an interdisciplinary seminar on explanation in philosophy and
psychology. We habitually begin the seminar with some philosophical
reflections on explanation - an analysis of the concept and its
metaphysical underpinnings. We discuss the various models and
proceed to examine explanation in the setting of psychology. Thus,
from the outset, we have focused not only on the concept itself but
also on its application. The objective that we have set for the
seminar, attended by students from both departments, Philosophy and
Psychology, has been a critical understanding of the concept of
explanation, its use and limitations. We were keen on deepening our
understanding of the concept and on exploring its applications in
fields of knowledge other than psychology. This was the motivation
for convening an international conference on explanation and its
application. The conference took place in the spring of 1998 under
the auspices of the University of Haifa. The present book is the
fruit of this meeting. The reader should note that the second part
of the Introduction presents a detailed analytical account of the
book. We hope that this overview will facilitate efficient use of
the book by directing the reader's attention to those issues that
might be of interest to him or her.
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