Gibson called actually himself a behaviorist, though obviously not in the Skinnerian mold. He was a student of E. B. Holt -- who was a disciple of William James (though Münsterberg was his dissertation advisor). Holt was also a co-founder (w/ another James-disciple, R. B. Perry, among others) of the ”New Realist” school of philosophy, which was pretty much a direct outgrowth of James' late Radical Empiricism. Holt was an very interesting thinker who doesn't get nearly as much attention as he should. This is probably because quit in the middle of his Harvard career, taking nearly a decade off, before returning part-time to Princeton for the end of his career. Besides Gibson, Holt's "other" best-known student was E. C. Tolman. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Holt
Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 43.773759, -79.503722 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo > On Feb 9, 2016, at 1:40 PM, Ken Steele <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2/9/2016 12:57 PM, Mike Palij wrote: >> >> On a sidenote, ordinarily when I think of Gibson I do not think >> of Skinner but William Uttal in his book "Psychomythics" lumps >> them together as radical empiricists. The text is available on >> books.google.com in preview mode and the following link >> should/might lead one to the appropriate section of the book: >> https://books.google.com/books?id=vil6AgAAQBAJ&q=gibson#v=snippet&q=gibson&f=false >> >> >> -Mike Palij >> New York University >> [email protected] >> > > Many people (both Ecological Psych people and Experimental Analysis of > Behavior people) have noticed similarities between the two approaches, and > have called for their alliance. > > An early article is by Alan Costall- > > Costall, A. (1984). Are theories of perception necessary? A review of > Gibson's 'The ecological approach to visual perception.' JEAB, 41, 109-115. > > A more recent article is by Ed Morris- > > Morris, E. K. (2009). Behavior analysis and ecological psychology: Past, > present, and future. A review of Harry Heft's 'Ecological psychology in > context.' JEAB, 92, 275-304. > > Ken > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected] > Professor > Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu > Appalachian State University > Boone, NC 28608 > USA > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=48116 > or send a blank email to > leave-48116-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- 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=48117 or send a blank email to leave-48117-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
