Ronald F White PhD Professor of Philosophy College of Mount St Joseph INTRODUCTION Themes in this Course so Far The nature of the individual in relationship to the state The nature of classes andor social groupings ID: 403503
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B.F. SKINNER AND BEHAVIORISM
Ronald F. White, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
College of Mount St. JosephSlide2
INTRODUCTION
Themes in this Course so Far
The nature of the individual in relationship to the state
The nature of classes and/or “social groupings”
The nature of political leadership
The nature and direction of human history
Mechanism and Historicism
Progress or regress
Power
and Knowledge
Rationalism v. Empiricism
Idealism v. Realism
The Nature of work as a human activity
Economic Theory and Politics
Classical Economics
MarxismSlide3
NEW THEMES
Science and Human Nature
Explain, Predict,
Control
Scientific Realism
Truth as Correspondence
Scientific Method
Nature v. Human Nature
Nature v. Nurture
Evolution
Biological Evolution (genes)
Cultural Evolution (ideas or memes)
Freudianism
Relativity Theory
Quantum Theory
Role of Science in Human Affairs
Rise
of Logical
Positivism
Material Reduction
Mechanism
Free
Will v. DeterminismSlide4
A SCIENCE OF BEHAVIOR
Rise of Behaviorism
Critique of traditional psychology
Psychology
is the “Science of Behavior” NOT Mind
Explain, Predict, Control Human Behavior without relying on non-empirical components like mind.
The “Black Box”
Pavlov’s
dogs
Reflex-
B.F. Skinner
Pigeons
Skinner BoxSlide5
SKINNER’S POLITICAL VIEWS
Human
Flourishment
The Controlled Society
Walden II