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E A Locke

1 paper in the library · publishing 1995

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Beyond determinism and materialism, or isn't it time we took consciousness seriously?

Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry September 1, 1995 E A Locke

The fundamental conflict between behaviorist and cognitive psychology is philosophical rather than scientific. Behaviorism rests on false premises: materialism, epiphenomenalism, a functional model of causality, and rejection of concepts referring to conscious states. An objective scientific psychology must instead take consciousness and volition as axiomatic starting points.