From: Marv Gandall On 2011-01-16, at 3:30 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> I try to avoid (not always too successfully) psychoanalyzing other people, > and I reject off hand attempts to read my mind. (Reading minds and > psychoanalyzing or psychological analysis are more or less synonymous > terms.) Repugnance is a matter of taste, not a political judgment. The DP, > which consistently, in office and out of office, acts like a governing > party, is more dangerous than the Republican Party? I haven't been reading your mind, Carrol. I've been reading your many posts over the years. ^^^^^ CB: Sounds like you r practicing Behaviorism, Marv, an honorably materialist tradition in bourgeois psychology. Is it empirical phenomenlogy ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, author, inventor, social philosopher,[1][2][3] and poet.[4] He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.[5] Skinner invented the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called Radical Behaviorism,[6] and founded his own school of experimental research psychology—the experimental analysis of behavior. His analysis of human behavior culminated in his work Verbal Behavior, which has recently seen enormous increase[citation needed] in interest experimentally and in applied settings.[7] Skinner discovered and advanced the rate of response as a dependent variable in psychological research. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure rate of responding as part of his highly influential work on schedules of reinforcement.[8][9] In a June, 2002 survey, Skinner was listed as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century.[10] He was a prolific author who published 21 books and 180 articles.[11][12] ^^^^ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
