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Mind, Brain and Behaviour: Discussions of B.F. Skinner and J.R. Searle book cover

1st Edition

Mind, Brain and Behaviour Discussions of B.F. Skinner and J.R. Searle

By Ilham Dilman Copyright 1988
158 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1988, this important study is a philosophical critique of the basic tenets of behaviourism in academic psychology as developed by B. F. Skinner and J. R. Searle’s conception of mind and its relation to the brain. Prof. Dilman sees their work in its proper context, as symptomatic of a much wider trend in human thought but criticises them on their individual merits. He... Read more

Preface.  Part I: B. F. Skinner: a Modern Gorgias  1. Operant Conditioning  2. Skinner’s View of the Language of Psychology  3. Skinner’s Reductive: Analyses: the Mind and its States  4. Skinner’s Reductive Analyses: Final Causes  5. Skinner’s Reductive Analyses: the Self, Self-Control, the Will, Decision and Action  6. Freedom of the Will  7. Skinner’s Picture of Human Life and Human Nature  8. Skinner’s Conception of ‘the Good Life’  9. Punishment and Behavioural Therapy  10. Science and Human Behaviour  Part II: John Searle: a Materialistic Dualist  11. The Mind and the Body  12. Thinking and the Brain  13. Freedom and Determinism.  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Ilham Dilman was Professor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wales, Swansea until his death in 2003. He was the author of numerous works of epistemology, philosophical psychology, aesthetics and existentialism, including Free Will: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction and The Self, the Soul and the Psychology of Good and Evil which are also published by Routledge.

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