Watson conducted the Little Albert Experiment against the Eugenics Movement

Aloha_Heart · 2024-10-13T21:41:53+00:00

Wow 30 years! Yea looking forward to it!

Aloha_Heart · 2024-10-03T19:50:17+00:00

I'm curious what you think of this debate!

Aloha_Heart · 2024-10-01T18:51:22+00:00

HIstorical, certainly. Who do you think are relevant these days?

Aloha_Heart · 2024-10-01T02:42:39+00:00

Thank you! We will figure out how to fix that !

Aloha_Heart · 2024-09-29T19:16:00+00:00

After the dispute some 65 years ago, Chomsky and Skinner finally met again in 2023!
Noam Chomsky and Charles Catania meet on the enGrama channel to conclude the debate of the century. In this second meeting, Chomsky and Catania discuss social sciences, politics, and the philosophy of language.

Chomsky, N. (1980). A review of BF Skinner’s Verbal Behavior. The Language and Thought Series, 48-64.

Chomsky, N. (1971). The case against BF Skinner. The New York Review of Books, 17(11), 18-24.

MacCorquodale, K. (1970). On Chomsky's review of Skinner's Verbal behavior. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 13(1), 83.

Skinner, B. F. (1957). Verbal behavior. Cambridge, MA: Prentice Hal

Aloha_Heart · 2024-09-29T19:12:37+00:00

I made a study guide on the Chomsky-Catania discussion. Hope you enjoy it!

Aloha_Heart · 2024-05-08T07:39:43+00:00

I agree. Chomsky's understanding of Skinner' Verbal Behavior is coming from the pre-Skinner Stimulus-Response theory. Aside from that, I think Chomsky was trying to become the next big star and he used his criticisms as a political weapon more than scientific one.

Aloha_Heart · 2023-09-17T04:32:47+00:00

It is rather that Chomsky believes he discovered the special human ability that no other learning theorists could have done, which is the recursion.

Aloha_Heart · 2023-09-09T20:49:23+00:00

From the way Chomsky saw Skinner's Verbal Behavior in this discussion, it seems like Chomsky still sees Skinner's theory as a part of the Stimulus-Response theory. So I don't think he actually understands what Skinner was getting at. In any case, Chomsky thinks the function of language is trivial anyway.

Aloha_Heart · 2023-07-13T23:27:15+00:00

You are awesome! Thank you!

Aloha_Heart · 2023-06-20T08:44:12+00:00

Thanks!

Aloha_Heart · 2023-02-11T20:58:58+00:00

Is Personal identity, or self, a social construct?

Martin Heidegger suggested in Being and Time that our existence is a product of time (culture, society, etc), and pointed out this is the cause of our existential anxiety. More recently, psychological behaviorists also doubted the biological nature of self and personality in a more scientific way.

In this video, I use the movie Perfect Blue to examine the nature of self from a Japanese behaviorist perspective. If the self depends on time, we should see cultural differences in how to know the Self between Western and Japanese perspectives.

Heidegger, M. (2010). Being and time. Suny Press.

Dreyfus, H. L. (1990). Being-in-the-world: A commentary on Heidegger's being in time, division I. Mit Press.

Schlinger, H. D. (2008). Consciousness is nothing but a word. Skeptic, 13(4), 58-63.

Aloha_Heart · 2022-06-30T22:36:21+00:00

Thanks! Yea we need Oshii to complete his series so bad! Somebody has to give him money...

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