Explanation In The Behavioural Sciences

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Cambridge University Press (1970)
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A confrontation of views written by distinguished figures concerned with the behavioural and social sciences.

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Conditioning and Behaviour,'.D. W. Hamlyn
Is the brain a physical system?'.N. S. Sutherland
Reasons and Causes: Comments.  (pages 27--41)R. S. Peters
The explanation of purposive behaviour.  (pages 49--79)Charles Taylor
Imperfect rationality.  (pages 147--237)J. W. N. Watkins
Understanding and explanation in sociology and social anthropology.  (pages 231--48)Ian C. Jarvie
The Skinnerian analysis of behaviour.  (pages 348)R. A. Boakes & M. S. Halliday
Explanation and the concept of personality'.  (pages 387--410)H. J. Eysenck
Problems of explanation in linguistics.  (pages 425--451)Noam Chomsky
Freud and the idea of a pseudo-science.  (pages 508--515)Frank Cioffi

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