Perspectives On Behavioral Science by Richard Jessor

Author:Richard Jessor [Jessor, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Sociology, Essays
ISBN: 9781000301144
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-28T03:31:23+00:00

Notes

1. See, e.g., Michael Dummett, A nice derangement of epitaphs: Some comments on Davidson and Hacking, in E. LePore, ed., The philosophy of Donald Davidson: Perspectives on inquiries into truth and interpretation (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986); David Lewis, Languages and language, in K. Gunderson, ed., Language, mind and knowledge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1975); Scott Soames, Linguistics and psychology, Linguistics and Philosophy, 7(2), 1984. See Noam Chomsky, Knowledge of language (New York: Praeger, 1986) for further discussion.

2. Anthony Kenny, The legacy of Wittgenstein (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984). For more detailed discussion, including remarks on Kenny's critique of my own views on the topic, see my paper, Language and problems of knowledge, delivered in Madrid, April 28, 1986, from which some of the following remarks are drawn; published in part in A. P. Martinich, ed., The philosophy of language, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).

3. In a thoughtful article on contemporary behaviorism, Robert Epstein suggests that it separate itself (as what he calls "praxis") from psychology, understood as the science of mind. This move, he suggests, "will allow behavioral psychologists to realign themselves with the biological sciences." My own view is different. If some version of behaviorism is distinguished as a separable discipline, it will be remote from the biological sciences both in spirit and in practice. Thus whatever the significance of the specific factors that Epstein proposes, extending Skinnerian notions, to estimate probability of behavior, there seems little reason for the study of behavior to restrict itself to them and to avoid the effort to determine how cognitive states enter into behavior, thus taking a crucial step towards linking the study of behavior to the natural sciences. See Robert Epstein, Animal cognition as the praxist views it, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 9:623-630, 1985.

4. This discussion slightly alters Kenny's formulation, but in no crucial way; see my article cited in note 2 for details.

5. See Hilary Putnam, Meaning and our mental life, manuscript, 1985, since published with revisions in Putnam, Representation and reality (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988). For further discussion, see particularly Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, The rise of selective theories: A case study and some lessons from immunology, in W. Demopoulos and A. Marras, eds., Language learning and concept acquisition: Fundamental issues (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986).

6. For discussion in a linguistic-cognitive context, see Noam Chomsky, Rules and representations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980), 136f.; and Niels Jerne's Nobel Prize lecture, The generative grammar of the immune system, Science, 229(4718):1057-1059, Sept. 13, 1985.

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