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Bridging Philosophy and Psychology Using the Example of Behaviourism and B.F. Skinner's 'Beyond Freedom and Dignity' (Paperback)
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Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1 (A),
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Institute for Foreign
Language Philology), course: The Beautiful and the Sublime,
language: English, comment: The paper is a philosophical discussion
of the psychological school of Behaviourism, relating the
philosophical ideas of B. F. Skinner to early English empisicists,
John Locke and David Hume. Including facts towards Behaviourism and
Empirism, also comprising a summary of B. F. Skinner's "Beyond
Freedom and Dignity.", abstract: It seems impossible to give a
precise definition of the term philosophy and the teachings that
are connected with it. Generally, philosophers' concerns are
questions for the reason and the origin of all being. In a way,
these questions unite all of today's arts subjects. As an effect,
though, the boundaries between arts often become blurred, all the
more since psychology from the early ancient world until the 19th
century has merely been regarded as a philosophical field. With the
emancipation of psychology as a scientific discipline on its own,
teachings were partly in opposition to the traditional way of
thinking, if being based on empirical evidence rather than
theoretical considerations. Thus, fundamentals of human psyche
happen to become a somewhat delicate matter. With this paper I have
touched philosophical and psychological problems using the example
of B. F. Skinner's "Beyond Freedom and Dignity," trying to show the
relationship and the margins of both fields. The author - Burrhus
Frederick Skinner (1904-1990) - is regarded one of the most radical
'scientists' among all psychologists. Skinner counts for a
distinguished representative of a psychological theory that
strongly tries to separate psychological findings from anything
experimentally unobservable - (American) behaviourism.
Nevertheless, Skinner's book Beyond Freedom and Dignity of 1971
largely leaves out any deta
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