Hi, All --
I'm doing a class in Learning and Behavior next semester, and this time I'm
going to use Sniffy (in the past it's been a real rat lab, but what with
budgets and failing equipment, I'll only get one example rat and have them do
exercises with Sniffy).
Anyway, I want it to be a course that does not only the psychology of learning,
but the philosophy of behaviorism. Sniffy learns fast, and I have a 3-hour
lab, so we can move fairly quickly, and spend probably the last month of the
semester doing more of the philosophical underpinnings. I want them to have a
fairly deep understanding of both epistemological (methodological) and
metaphysical behaviorism (umm, determinism).
I'm wondering if someone out there has taught a similar course. I've read a
bunch of Skinner and about-Skinner, but am just wondering what others have used
in courses. I'm also interested in a text to supplement Sniffy (the learning
in there doesn't go as deeply as I would like).
So, ideas? I'll repay with reporting about how it goes...
m
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Marc Carter, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
Baker University
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