Lamal, P. A. (2000).
The philosophical terrain of behavior analysis: A review of B. A. Thyer (Ed.),
The philosophical legacy of behaviorism.
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
74, 255-264.
The Philosophical Legacy of Behaviorism, edited by Bruce
A. Thyer, is a set of original contributions, each dealing, from
a behavioral stance, with one of the following major topics of
philosophy: epistemology, ethics, consciousness, language, free
will and determinism, and self-control. Confusions about radical
behaviorism and its similarities to, and differences from, other
behavioral and nonbehavioral approaches are described in the
book, which provides a state-of-the-art description of the
philosophical underpinnings of behavior analysis.
Key words: radical behaviorism, philosophy, private events,
epistemology, ethics