I did a postdoc in the early 1970s at University of California Medical 
School in San Francisco. I making a joking comment to the researcher I was 
working with about the fact that UCBerkeley across the bay named its 
psychology building Tolman Hall. My major professor in grad school was a 
student of Spence who was Hull's student. His major professor was a Tolman 
product. My joke was that naming the hall after Tolman was ironic since Hull 
had won the argument. He assured me that Tolman had won. It is interesting 
to see that the debate is still ongoing. As many philosophers of science 
have pointed out some questions are never answered: the researchers simply 
go on to other questions. The zeitgeist changes when new techniques are 
developed (or more cynically, the gods of funding change their priorities).

Harry Avis PhD
Sierra College
Rocklin, CA 95677
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so     - 
Shakespeare




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