Behavior and Philosophy Archives

On psychological terms that appeal to the mental
Moore, J
ABSTRACT: A persistent challenge for nominally behavioral viewpoints in ph…

Is Alcoholics Anonymous really a religious cult that uses communist-derived techniques to brainwash its members? A Review of Jeffrey A. Schaler,…

Facts, concepts, and theories: The shape of psychology’s epistemic triangle
Machado, Armando
ABSTRACT: In this essay we introduce th…

Behaviorism as an ethnomethodological experiment: Flouting the convention of rational agency
Place, U T
BEHAVIORISM AS AN ETHNOMETHO…

Beyond trial-and-error in a selectionist psychology
Cleaveland, J M
ABSTRACT: A common criticism of a selectionist psychology is tha…

SOME FURTHER THOUGHTS ON THE PRAGMATIC AND BEHAVIORAL CONCEPTION OF PRIVATE EVENTS
Moore, J
ABSTRACT: For behavior analysis, ontolog…

COVERT BEHAVIOR AND MENTAL TERMS: A REPLY TO MOORE
Stemmer, Nathan
In a recent paper, Moore (2001) compares the behavior analytic tr…

Conceptions of determinism in radical behaviorism: A taxonomy
Slife, Brent D
ABSTRACT: Determinism his long been a core assumption i…

Linguistic behaviorism and the correspondence theory of truth
Place, Ullin T
ABSTRACT: Linguistic Behaviorism (Place, 1996) is an at…

The modern/postmodern context of Skinner’s selectionist turn in 1945
Moxley, Roy A
Philosophical modernism and literary modernism co…