On Aug 5, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote: > The article in question is the following: > Green, C. D. (1992). Of Immortal Mythological Beasts Operationism > in Psychology. Theory & Psychology, 2(3), 291-320. > > The article appears in a special issue that appears to be devoted > to pistol whipping operationism like a blind kid (a "Topic Thunder" > reference). See the following for the table of contents: > http://tap.sagepub.com/content/2/3.toc >
The "special issue” was a kind of happy accident. I submitted my paper independently, but Hank Stam appeared to have a number of related papers submitted at about the same time and, so, PRANG! a “special issue” was born. There was a followup issue in the same journal in 2001, when Randolph Grace attempted to come to operationism’s defence, and a number of us were called upon to respond to the attempt. I don’t have them all, but my own reply can be found here: http://www.yorku.ca/christo/papers/Grace.reply.htm > > Chris, I have a minor point to make: your footnote 2 in reference to > Hull seems to be in error or could be interpreted in an alternative fashion. > The "inferring back" or the error of "affirming the consequent" is only > an error if one is doing deductive reasoning but not in abductive > reasoning as proposed by Charles S. Peirce. It might be, but I would be stunned and amazed if Clark Hull knew very much at all about Charles Peirce’s work. When William James first publicly adopted the term “pragmatism” in an 1898 talk at Cal (and then repeated the story in Varieties of Religious Experience just a few years later), he felt the need to explain who Peirce was because he expected that no one in either audience would know of the man or his work. If Hull had studied at Harvard with James, then he might have learned of P’s "third form" of logic — abduction — but Hull did his PhD with Jastrow at Wisconsin, and then got picked up by Yale (presided over by James R. Angell). Hull’s approach to science was explicitly hypothetic-deductive which, to my mind anyway, is distinct from abduction (at least William Rozeboom thought so: http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~rozeboom/files/1997_Good_science_is_abductive.pdf ) Best, Chris --- Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 43.773897°, -79.503667° [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo ………………………………... --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=46299 or send a blank email to leave-46299-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
