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Examining the 'Radical' in Radical Behaviorism SIGRID S. GLENN, University of North Texas
Radical behaviorism is often used synonymously with behavior analysis, but it is only one component of behavior analysis: its philosophy of science. Like all philosophies of science, the tenets of radical behaviorism derive in part from the science itself; they lay bare its underlying assumptions; and they identify the conceptual boundaries of the science. Radical behaviorism is radical in the sense that almost all of its tenets require a kind of figure-ground reversal in the way that we think. It challenges some of the basic assumptions we were implicitly taught by the everyday language of our culture. Such challenges can be intellectually invigorating or frightfully threatening or both. In this paper, several concepts associated with radical behaviorist philosophy will be examined to clarify their role in the science and to point out the uniqueness of the radical behaviorist perspective on these concepts. The concepts to be discussed in this paper are lawfulness [of behavior]; mentalism; private events; contingency shaped and rule governed; phylogenic and ontogenic; social and nonsocial; and verbal and nonverbal.
