Recently added articles from Behavior and Philosophy:

NATURE, NURTURE, AND INDIVIDUAL CHANGE

Jan 01, 2006; Mullen, John D ... ABSTRACT: Determining the degree to which persistent human behaviors and traits are the result of genetics or environment is important for a host of theoretical reasons in psychology. This article asks whether the results of such determinations are relevant to the practical tasks of individual ...

B. F. SKINNER'S OTHER POSITIVISTIC BOOK: WALDEN TWO

Jan 01, 2006; Moxley, Roy A ... ABSTRACT: B. F. Skinner's The Behavior of Organisms (1938/1966) and Walden Two (1948) are both positivistic. Skinner explicitly stated his approach was positivistic in The Behavior of Organisms although he did not make an explicit statement about Walden Two. Three features of positivism are ...

WHY NEURAL SYNCHRONY FAILS TO EXPLAIN THE UNITY OF VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Jan 01, 2006; LaRock, Eric ... ABSTRACT: A central issue in philosophy and neuroscience is the problem of unified visual consciousness. This problem has arisen because we now know that an object's stimulus features (e.g., its color, texture, shape, etc.) generate activity in separate areas of the visual cortex (Felleman & ...

ARE CURRENT PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS USEFUL TO NEUROSCIENTISTS?

Jan 01, 2006; Sullivan, Philip R ... ABSTRACT: Two radically different families of theory currently compete for acceptance among theorists of human consciousness. The majority of theorists believe that the human brain somehow causes consciousness, but a significant minority holds that how the brain would cause this property ...

OF WHAT VALUE IS PHILOSOPHY TO SCIENCE? A REVIEW OF MAX R. BENNETT AND P. M. S. HACKER'S PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NEUROSCIENCE

Jan 01, 2006; Burgos, José E; Donahoe, John W ... ABSTRACT: The book Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (2003) is an engaging criticism of cognitive neuroscience from the perspective of a Wittgensteinian philosophy of ordinary language. The authors' main claim is that assertions like "the brain sees" and "the left hemisphere thinks" are ...

CLASSIC ETHOLOGY REAPPRAISED

Jan 01, 2006; de Sá-Nogueira Saraiva, Rodrigo ... ABSTRACT: I analyze the theoretical tenets of early ethology and the criticisms leveled against it from comparative psychology. Early ethology had a clear research object, the study of behavioral adaptedness. Adaptedness was explained by the functional rules and programs that underlie the ...

HUMAN BEHAVIOR AS LANGUAGE: SOME THOUGHTS ON WITTGENSTEIN

Jan 01, 2006; Ribes-Iñesta, Emilio ... ABSTRACT: Language has been traditionally considered as a special psychological or behavioral phenomenon, with a logical status similar to other phenomena such as learning, memory, and thinking. Based on Wittgenstein's notion of language game, I argue that language is not limited to a ...