| B.F Skinner - Psychology - 1965 - 484 pages
...spurious explanations. A science of behavior can hope to gain very little from so cavalier a practice. Since mental or psychic events are asserted to lack...science, we have an additional reason for rejecting them. Conceptual inner causes. The commonest inner causes have no specific dimensions at all, either... | |
| Donald Polkinghorne - Science - 1983 - 372 pages
...spurious explanations. A science of behavior can hope to gain very little from so cavalier a practice. Since mental or psychic events are asserted to lack...science, we have an additional reason for rejecting them" (pp. 29-31). 12. See chapter 2 for the nomological-deductive definition of "cause" as a relationship... | |
| Peter A. Morton - Philosophy - 1996 - 522 pages
...spurious explanations. A science of behavior can hope to gain very little from so cavalier a practice. Since mental or psychic events are asserted to lack...science, we have an additional reason for rejecting them. Conceptual inner causes. The commonest inner causes have no specific dimensions at all, either... | |
| B. Alan Wallace - Religion - 2004 - 234 pages
...Behaviorism duly followed this dictum, with the result that in 1953, BF Skinner concluded that mtnd and ideas are nonexistent entities "invented for the...science, we have an additional reason for rejecting them."2' Assertions concerning suhjective experience were similarly denied hy certain philosophers... | |
| Donald E. Polkinghorne - Psychology - 1984 - 668 pages
...behavior can hope to ain very little from so cavalier a practice. Since mental or psychic events ire asserted to lack the dimensions of physical science, we have an additional reason for rejecting them" (pp. 29-31). 12. See chapter 2 for the nomological-deductive definition of "cause" as a relationship... | |
| MOHANDAS MOSES - Philosophy - 2005 - 428 pages
...purpose and even thinking and emotion 5 Half a century later BF Skinner6 even more emphatically said that "mind" and "ideas" are non-existent entities...sole purpose of providing spurious explanations". Across the Atlantic Professor Gilbert Ryle7 claimed that he had demolished the myth of consciousness... | |
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