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" In all this it is obvious that the mind and the ideas, together with their special characteristics, are being invented on the spot to provide spurious explanations. A science of behavior can hope to gain very little from so cavalier a practice. Since... "
The Triune Brain in Evolution: Role in Paleocerebral Functions - Page 2
by P.D. MacLean - 1990 - 672 pages
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Science And Human Behavior

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...
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Methodology for the Human Sciences: Systems of Inquiry

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...
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A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind: Readings with Commentary

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...
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The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness

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...
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The Taboo of Subjectivity : Towards a New Science of Consciousness: Towards ...

Department of Religious Studies University of California B. Alan Wallace Visiting Lecturer, Santa Barbara - Religion - 2000 - 234 pages
...defined."27 Behaviorism duly followed this dictum, with the result that in 1953, BF Skinner concluded that mind and ideas are nonexistent entities "invented...lack the dimensions of physical science, we have an THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM additional reason for rejecting them."28 Assertions concerning...
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Methodology for the Human Sciences: Systems of Inquiry

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...
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LAST FRONTIERS OF THE MIND: CHALLENGES OF THE DIGITAL AGE

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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