ISBN: 9781119880868 - science and philosophy of behavior: selected papers (7 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. William M. Baum is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and a Research Associate at the University of California, Davis. He has published over one hundred journal articles and has over twenty years teaching experience at universities inclu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rediscover the science and philosophy of behaviorIn Science and Philosophy of Behavior: Selected Papers, distinguished researcher W. M. Baum delivers an expansive collection of incisive papers setting out a new paradigm of thinking about behavior. The book offers only articles that put forward a philosophical and theoretical framework for an effective natural science of behavior. Quantitative analysis is largely avoided (except for a paper on, of all things, avoidance).Organized into three parts, the author explains the flow-like nature of behavior and its link to evolution, as well as descriptions of a pure form of behaviorism that correct some flaws in B.F. Skinner's seminal works. The book also links behaviorism to anthropology in its final section.Readers will also find:\* Fulsome descriptions of the molar nature of behavior and why the molecular view is misguided\* Re-imaginations of the concept of reinforcement, including considerations of allocation, induction, and contingency\* Explorations of the links between behavior analysis and Darwinian evolutionary processesAn essential critique--and reorganization--of behavior theory and philosophy, Science and Philosophy of Behavior: Selected Papers is a controversial, fascinating, and eye-opening journey through a half-century of transformational work in the field.…