Thursday, January 24, 2013

Don’t judge me for my choices when you don’t understand my reasons.

There are may inspiring philosophers, Socrates who died for what he believe, but my ideal philosopher is B.F Skinner.

B. F. Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna, a small railroad town in the hills of Pennsylvania just below Binghamton, New York. After attending Hamilton college, Skinner decided to become a writer. working as a bookstore clerk, he happened upon books by Pavlov and Watson. He found them impressive and exciting and wanted to learn more.In 1969 he published Contingencies of Reinforcement and two years later Beyond Freedom and Dignity which prompted a series of television appearances.

Skinner's main target in Science and Human Behavior (New York: Free Press, 1953), and also elsewhere, e.g. in Beyond Freedom and Dignity (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971), is what he calls "mentalism," namely the appeal to inner psychological phenomena in the explanation of human behavior. What is wrong with mental notions in the explanation of behavior?

he is a psychologist philosopher and a linguistic. he does not only help understand the ones behavior, but also has contributed a lot of theories of learning. a scientist and also a philosopher.

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