Most Recent Articles from Behavior and Philosophy

• LOGICAL POSITIVISM, NATURALISTIC EPISTEMOLOGY, AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY 

  ABSTRACT: According to the standard account, logical positivism was the philosophical foundation of psychological neo-behaviorism. Smith (1986) has...

  01/01/04 by Kitchener, Richard F · More from publication

• PSYCHOLOGICAL VS. BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF BEHAVIOR 

  ABSTRACT: Causal explanations of behavior must distinguish two kinds of cause. There are (what I call) triggering causes, the events or conditions...

  01/01/04 by Dretske, Fred · More from publication

• IS THE OPERANT CONTINGENCY ENOUGH FOR A SCIENCE OF PURPOSIVE BEHAVIOR? 

  ABSTRACT: The operant contingency remains the most powerful and flexible single technology for the production and control of purposive behavior....

  01/01/04 by Timberlake, William · More from publication

• BEHAVIOR IS ABSTRACTION, NOT OSTENSION: CONCEPTUAL AND HISTORICAL REMARKS ON THE NATURE OF PSYCHOLOGY 

  ABSTRACT:In this paper I discuss (1) the nontechnical nature of the term "behavior"; (2) the need to revisit the Aristotelian concept of soul as...

  01/01/04 by Ribes-Iñesta, Emilio · More from publication

• CAUSAL THEORIES OF INTENTIONAL BEHAVIOR AND WAYWARD CAUSAL CHAINS 

  ABSTRACT: On a causal theory of rational behavior, behavior is just a causal consequence of the reasons an actor has. One of the difficulties with...

  01/01/04 by Enç, Berent · More from publication

• ON THE CONCEPTUAL AND LINGUISTIC ACTIVITY OF PSYCHOLOGISTS: THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR FROM THE 1890S TO THE 1990S AND BEYOND 

  ABSTRACT: In the early twentieth century psychology became the study of "behavior." This article reviews developments within animal psychology,...

  01/01/04 by Leary, David E · More from publication

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