B. F. Skinner: The phenomenological control of behaviour

Abstract

With this work the authors try to point out that the principal difference between the radical behaviourism approach and the methodological behaviourism approach to psychology lies on that the later assumes a cartesian or representational conceptual framework, while the former incorporates —implicitly, in exercise— a radical phenomenological-descriptive point of view. Because of this phenomenological point of view, radical behaviourism is able to get round both, the mentalistic and the physicalistic prejudices, in which methodological behaviourism get inevitably entalged due to its cartesian or representational outlook.