出版社：Universidade Federal do Parana̧, Departamento de Psicologia
摘要：The article’s objective is to elucidate some characteristics of the explicative model proposed byRadical Behaviorism. As such, we have approached two aspects: (1) the explicative field’sdelimitation, and (2) the explicative model in the context of the philosophy of the science. In relationto first point, we have examined the behavior’s statute in radical behaviorist explanation contrasting itwith two traditional explanations of behavior: the mentalist and the physicalist. Differenring fromthese last explanations Radical Behaviorism defends behavior as an autonomous subject matter. In thecontext of the philosophy of science, we have examined traditional conceptions about the dependencerelations among events as necessary connection and chain metaphor. Soon after, we discussed how thebehaviorist explanative model seems to be incompatible with these conceptions. We have concludedthat Radical Behaviorism explains the behavior looking for probabilistic interdependence networksbetween environmental and behavioral events taking the importance of history in this process intoconsideration.
