Reasons, functions and causes: A philosophical approach to the explanations of behavior in contextual psychotherapies.

The philosophical characterization of the explanation of behavior holds that two explanatory relations are central to its intelligibility: rationality and causality. In the present article, we will assess how fitting this characterization is regarding explanations of behaviors provided in contextual...

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Autor principal: Sánchez, Nicolás Sebastián
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2024
Materias:
explicación del comportamiento
psicoterapias contextuales
racionalidad
explicación funcional
causalidad
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/afjor/article/view/40556
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Epistemología e Historia de la Ciencia de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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spelling I10-R341-article-405562025-01-01T00:41:33Z Reasons, functions and causes: A philosophical approach to the explanations of behavior in contextual psychotherapies. Razones, funciones y causas: Una aproximación filosófica a las explicaciones del comportamiento en psicoterapias contextuales Sánchez, Nicolás Sebastián explicación del comportamiento psicoterapias contextuales racionalidad explicación funcional causalidad The philosophical characterization of the explanation of behavior holds that two explanatory relations are central to its intelligibility: rationality and causality. In the present article, we will assess how fitting this characterization is regarding explanations of behaviors provided in contextual psychotherapies. Our assessment will yield negative answers in several respects. First, we will argue that, given that the goal of these therapies is not holistic understanding or normative assessment, rationality does not play a substantive role in its explanations of behavior. Second, causality is secondary in the diagnostic stage. We will argue that, at this point, the function of the problematic behaviors is what is trying to be understood. Third, causality does play a role in the intervention stage of the therapeutical process. However, we claim that this role is not the same as the folk model of philosophical characterization assumes. On a more positive note, we suggest that explanations of behavior in functional contextual therapy are hybrid, with functional explanations at the diagnostic stage and causal explanations at the intervention stage. De acuerdo con una caracterización filosófica tradicional, el comportamiento humano se hace inteligible a partir de estados mentales, atendiendo especialmente a dos relaciones explicativas: la racionalidad y la causalidad.  En el presente artículo evaluaremos cuán adecuada es dicha caracterización respecto a las explicaciones que se dan en las psicoterapias contextuales. Nuestro análisis establece varias respuestas por la negativa. Por un lado, el objetivo de estas terapias no es la comprensión holística ni la evaluación normativa, por lo que la racionalidad no juega allí un rol explicativo. A su vez, el rol de la causalidad es secundario en la evaluación diagnóstica, dado que en esa etapa del proceso terapéutico es la función de los comportamientos la que busca elucidarse. Finalmente, sostenemos que la intervención terapéutica de estas psicoterapias se centra en explicaciones causales, aunque no desde el modelo de sentido común que la caracterización filosófica supone. Sugerimos, por la positiva, que las explicaciones del comportamiento en psicoterapias contextuales son híbridas: al evaluar apelan a explicaciones funcionales y al intervenir a explicaciones causales. Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2024-12-31 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/afjor/article/view/40556 10.61377/ehc.40556 Epistemología e Historia de la Ciencia; Vol. 8 No. 1 (2024): Epistemología e Historia de la Ciencia (versión preliminar) Epistemología e Historia de la Ciencia; Vol. 8 Núm. 1 (2024): Epistemología e Historia de la Ciencia (versión preliminar) Epistemología e Historia de la Ciencia; v. 8 n. 1 (2024): Epistemología e Historia de la Ciencia (versión preliminar) 2525-1198 10.61377/ehc.20248.1 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/afjor/article/view/40556/48380 Derechos de autor 2024 Nicolás Sebastián Sánchez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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topic explicación del comportamiento
psicoterapias contextuales
racionalidad
explicación funcional
causalidad
spellingShingle explicación del comportamiento
psicoterapias contextuales
racionalidad
explicación funcional
causalidad
Sánchez, Nicolás Sebastián
Reasons, functions and causes: A philosophical approach to the explanations of behavior in contextual psychotherapies.
topic_facet explicación del comportamiento
psicoterapias contextuales
racionalidad
explicación funcional
causalidad
author Sánchez, Nicolás Sebastián
author_facet Sánchez, Nicolás Sebastián
author_sort Sánchez, Nicolás Sebastián
title Reasons, functions and causes: A philosophical approach to the explanations of behavior in contextual psychotherapies.
title_short Reasons, functions and causes: A philosophical approach to the explanations of behavior in contextual psychotherapies.
title_full Reasons, functions and causes: A philosophical approach to the explanations of behavior in contextual psychotherapies.
title_fullStr Reasons, functions and causes: A philosophical approach to the explanations of behavior in contextual psychotherapies.
title_full_unstemmed Reasons, functions and causes: A philosophical approach to the explanations of behavior in contextual psychotherapies.
title_sort reasons, functions and causes: a philosophical approach to the explanations of behavior in contextual psychotherapies.
description The philosophical characterization of the explanation of behavior holds that two explanatory relations are central to its intelligibility: rationality and causality. In the present article, we will assess how fitting this characterization is regarding explanations of behaviors provided in contextual psychotherapies. Our assessment will yield negative answers in several respects. First, we will argue that, given that the goal of these therapies is not holistic understanding or normative assessment, rationality does not play a substantive role in its explanations of behavior. Second, causality is secondary in the diagnostic stage. We will argue that, at this point, the function of the problematic behaviors is what is trying to be understood. Third, causality does play a role in the intervention stage of the therapeutical process. However, we claim that this role is not the same as the folk model of philosophical characterization assumes. On a more positive note, we suggest that explanations of behavior in functional contextual therapy are hybrid, with functional explanations at the diagnostic stage and causal explanations at the intervention stage.
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