Radical Behaviorism and Cultural Analysis

• Main Author: Carrara, Kester (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Personality.; Social psychology.; Epistemology.; Philosophy of mind.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Philosophy of Mind.

This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.F. Skinner can be applied to describe and explain cultural practices phenomena produced by complex relations between behavior and environment. It updates the academic debate on the best paradigm to analyze complex social interactio...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 - Psychology and dichotomic thinking
• Chapter 2 - The unfeasibility of the "thing-in-itself" as an explanatory source for behavior
• Chapter 3 - Nothing can "be", other than through its relations
• Chapter 4 - Sustainability and conditional altruism
• Chapter 5 - Cultural designs and descendants: What does the future hold for Pedro, Isabela, and Miguel?.