TY - JOUR
AU - Harrison, Ross
AB - The Journal of General Psychology, 1938, 18, 367-421. Departments of Psychology, University of Illinois and Johns Hopdins University WILLARD HARRELL AND Ross HARRISON I. Behaviorism originated only a quarter of a century ago and its most active period is hardly a decade past, so it is not surprising that an entirely satisfactory evaluation of the movement has not been published. While such a treatment must wait for the more leisurely historian, certain remarks may be in order concerning what was at once one of the most strident and yet most significant of modern developments. In one sense behaviorism is merely another brand of materialism. A list of materialists would go back two thousand years to Leucip- pus and Democritus. Among some of the familiar materialists in the history of philosophy who have had an indirect bearing on such a contemporary trend of thought as behaviorism are Hobbes, Hume, Diderot, La Mettrie, CondilIac, Hehitius, L’Holbach, and more recently Comte, Cabanis, Cour@t, Vogt, Moleschott, Buchner, Lewes, de Tracy, Herder, Mach, Haeckel, and T. H. Huxley. Of historical interest is the forgotten figure, Johann Nicholas Tetens, who in Philosophische Yersuche iiber die Menschliche Natur und lhre Entwickelung (1777) made several gestures in 
TI - The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism
JF - The Journal of General Psychology
DO - 10.1080/00221309.1938.9709985
DA - 1938-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/the-rise-and-fall-of-behaviorism-45SYrXuJ0W
SP - 367
EP - 421
VL - 18
IS - 2
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