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Some Relations between Culture, Ethics and Technology in B. F. Skinner

Behavior and Social Issues

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Title Some Relations between Culture, Ethics and Technology in B. F. Skinner
 
Creator Melo, Camila Muchon de
Castro, Marina Souto Lopes Bezerra
de Rose, Julio César Coelho
 
Subject Behavior Analysis; Cultural Analysis; Radical Behaviorism
Radical Behaviorism, culture, ethics, behavioral technology, technology of teaching
 
Description B. F. Skinner was engaged, throughout all his career, in finding ways to make life, culture and the world better through behavior analysis. The tools developed by the science of behavior may be used for technological ends. At the same time, a philosophy—Radical Behaviorism—discusses the theoretical basis for science and its possible relations with technology. Ethics emerges from these relations and Skinner had to face inevitable ethical questions. We will examine some aspects of Skinner's radical behaviorist approach on ethics and the relations established between science, technology, culture and ethics. The technology of teaching, proposed by Skinner in 1968, will be addressed as the best example of a behavioral technology which, as a cultural intervention, based on behavioral science, may contribute to achieve ethical goals: in others words, to build a better life and a better world - according to Skinner´s understanding of “better.”
 
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 
Contributor Postdoctoral fellowship to the first author (FAPESP, Grant 2008/56801-3) and a doctoral fellowship to the second author (FAPESP, Grant 2008/57160-1). The third author has a Grants from CNPq (573972/2008-7) and FAPESP (Grant 08/57705-8.)
 
Date 2015-05-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/4796
10.5210/bsi.v24i0.4796
 
Source Behavior and Social Issues; Vol 24 (2015); 39-55
1064-9506
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/4796/4563