Radical Behaviorism

Leigland, Sam

• Publisher: Context Press
• Year: 1010
• eBook ISBN: 9781608825929

From the mid-1960s until his death in 1989, Willard Day wrote and spoke on two central themes: the distinctive characteristics of Skinner''s scientific philosophy, and the implications of Skinner''s work for the development of scientific methods relevant to verbal behavior. Only some of this work made its way to publication. Edited by Sam Leigland, this book brings together in one place the most important papers, published and unpublished, of the leader in behavioral philosophy.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Table of Contents
• The Historical Antecedents of Contemporary Behaviorism
• On The Difference Between Radical and Methodological Behaviorism
• On Skinner’s Treatment of the First-Person, Third-Person Psychological Sentence Distinction
• On Certain Similarities Between the Philosophical Investigationsof Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Operationism of B. F. Skinner
• The Concept of Reinforcement-History and Explanation in Behaviorism
• Methodological Problems in the Analysis of Behavior Controlled by Private Events: Some Unusual Recommendations
• Beyond Bondage and Regimentation: A Review of Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B. F. Skinner
• Humanistic Psychology and Contemporary Behaviorism (A Reply to Matson’s [1971] Humanistic Theory: The Third Revolution in Psychology)