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
This essay argues: (1) that the fundamental conflict between the behaviorist and cognitive approaches to psychology are philosophical, not scientific; (2) that the philosophical premises underlying behaviorism (materialism, epiphenomenalism, functional model of causality, and the rejection of concepts referring to conscious states and processes) are false; and (3) that an objective, scientific...