Super Geekout! I just finished a chapter On Terms in a CBS framework. The chapter is about how to understand and evaluate terms within a contextual behavioral science framework. It is all about underlying philosophy of science and meta-theory applied to scientific and scientifically oriented applied terms in psychology. In some ways this chapter feels like a culmination of an analytic framework I have ben trying to think my way through in my own work and especially in my Grad Learning course over the past 14 years. Current and former students will recognize the outline of the argument. After a HARD edit by Steve, I think I am done with it. I am happy:) And a geek:) And happy to be a geek:) Here is a little teaser from the chapter: Contextual Behavioral Science as a group, share the grand vision of the behavioral theories of the 30s and 40s. CBS retains the skepticism of traditional behavior analysis in the addition of terms and sets several criteria for making decisions about adding variables and about letting go of variables. Some are “rules of the game” that are related to the nature of functional contextualism and our underlying philosophy of science. Some, like parsimony, are widely shared with most scientific systems, but workability is the most characteristic. It is the absolute bedrock of CBS. Whereas elemental realist positions have a basis in the antecedent conditions of the world, the only foundation in CBS is the consequence of our analyses. (Geek, 2014) Well see if my happy assessment of the manuscript survives the opinions of the editors at Sage where the volume on Contextual Behavioral Science will be published. Now....time to go climb a mountain with my wife!
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 01:21:11 +0000
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