A Philosopher’s War on Poverty of the Stimulus Arguments: A Review of Fiona Cowie’s What’s Within? Nativism Reconsidered

Schoneberger, Ted

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“…Moore (2008) included a discussion of a variety of traditional issues in philosophy of mind from the perspective of radical behaviorism. Other areas of development include linguistics (e.g., Palmer, 2006b;Schoneberger, 2000Schoneberger, , 2005, memory (e.g., Palmer, 1991;White & Wixted, 2010), and values (e.g., Leigland, 2005).…”

Section: Implications Of Radical Behaviorism For Empirical and Theorementioning

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Functions of research in radical behaviorism for the further development of behavior analysis

Leigland

2010

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The experimental analysis of behavior began as an inductively oriented, empirically based scientific field. As the field grew, its distinctive system of science-radical behaviorism-grew with it. The continuing growth of the empirical base of the field has been accompanied by the growth of the literature on radical behaviorism and its implications. In this article the case is made that radical behaviorism is more than an abstract description of the assumptions and practices of the field; it is an active area of research within the field itself, and that such theoretical research is of great importance to the development of the field. Some of the characteristics of radical behaviorism are described in brief, along with the functions of organization, clarification, and extension of various aspects of behavior-analytic science. Research examples are given from the areas of work on the system itself, behavior-analytic theory, and implications of behavior analysis for issues and findings in other fields. The unique characteristics of radical behaviorism provide an integrative and generative scientific framework for the continuing development of behavior analysis.

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Section: Implications Of Radical Behaviorism For Empirical and Theorementioning

confidence: 99%

Functions of research in radical behaviorism for the further development of behavior analysis

Leigland

2010

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“…Realism finds error difficult to account for. (p. 386) This is a poverty-of-the-stimulus argument, one which Noam Chomsky (1959) made famous in his review of Skinner's (1957) Verbal Behavior (Schoneberger, 2005). According to Chomsky (1959, p. 54-58;), children's linguistic environments are too impoverished for them to learn grammar, so grammar must be innate (Chomsky, 1965;contra.…”

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BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AND ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. A REVIEW OF HARRY HEFT'SECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN CONTEXT

Morris

2009

J Exper Analysis Behavior

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Relations between behavior analysis and ecological psychology have been strained for years, notwithstanding the occasional comment on their affinities. Harry Heft's (2001)Ecological Psychology in Context provides an occasion for reviewing anew those relations and affinities. It describes the genesis of ecological psychology in James's radical empiricism; addresses Holt's neorealism and Gestalt psychology; and synthesizes Gibson's ecological psychology and Barker's ecobehavioral science as a means for understanding everyday human behavior. Although behavior analysis is excluded from this account, Heft's book warrants a review nonetheless: It describes ecological psychology in ways that are congruent and complementary with behavior analysis (e.g., nonmediational theorizing; the provinces of natural history and natural science). After introducing modern ecological psychology, I comment on (a) Heft's admirable, albeit selective, historiography; (b) his ecological psychology-past and present-as it relates to Skinner's science and system (e.g., affordances, molar behavior); (c) his misunderstandings of Skinner's behaviorism (e.g., reductionistic, mechanistic, molecular); and (d) the theoretical status of Heft's cognitive terms and talk (i.e., in ontology, epistemology, syntax). I conclude by considering the alliance and integration of ecological psychology and behavior analysis, and their implications for unifying and transforming psychology as a life science, albeit more for the future than at present.

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“…Further, the poverty of the stimulus argument has also come under attack from some addition sources, such as philosopher Fiona Cowie (Schoneberger, 2005) and prominent cognitivist researcher Jeffrey Elman, noted earlier. Elman's (2004Elman's ( , 2005 connectionist simulations of language development have created a firestorm of controversy in the linguistic community by showing that many of the complex properties of language widely assumed to be innate may be learned by a computer without programmed rules, but only with inputs, history, and feedback (or consequences).…”

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A comprehensive science: A review of Moore’s Conceptual Foundations of Radical Behaviorism

Leigland

2009

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A Philosopher’s War on Poverty of the Stimulus Arguments: A Review of Fiona Cowie’s What’s Within? Nativism Reconsidered

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

Functions of research in radical behaviorism for the further development of behavior analysis

Functions of research in radical behaviorism for the further development of behavior analysis

BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AND ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. A REVIEW OF HARRY HEFT'SECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN CONTEXT

A comprehensive science: A review of Moore’s Conceptual Foundations of Radical Behaviorism

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