Epistemological foundations of behaviorism: from modern causality to pragmatism

Fundamentos epistemológicos del conductismo: de la causalidad moderna hacia el pragmatismo

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Carlos Alberto Romero Otálora
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This article explores two different changes of epistemological perspective of the behaviourism. the first is related with the background of the russian physiology and the origins of the classic Watsonian behaviourism or modern causality and the second is related with the skinnerian perspective. The reasons for considering that modern causality is not the main reference of the epistemological behaviourism are posed; while it is
not possible to separate the dualism of the representationalist position of knowledge. In response to this, it is argued that skinner has developed his work focused mainly on the pragmatism. the implications of the pragmatic epistemology are discussed, which are focused to the point of changing the perspective of delimitation on what we consider the scientific knowledge and some of the conceptual problems that will arise when an epistemological position is assumed are suggested.

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