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- Title
TOWARD A BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS COMMITTED TO VALUES.
- Authors
Spector Azoubel, Marcos; Rodrigues Fonseca-Júnior, Amilcar
- Abstract
Understanding scientific practice as a product of reinforcement contingencies renders science incompatible with scientific neutrality, but it does not indicate the role of values in science. Taking this into account, in this article, we discuss the function of values in behavior analytic science. Initially, we indicate that the scientific community commonly engages in the construction of knowledge based on epistemic criteria that, although indispensable, must be critically analyzed, considering its history and function to achieve a description of the non-epistemic values that guide the criteria of scientificity (epistemic consciousness). We also indicate that epistemic criteria are insufficient to guide scientific practice since ethical and political values are part of the research process and must be equally recognized and declared (non-epistemic consciousness). Second, we demonstrate that this thesis is compatible with the Skinnerian conception of science. We conclude that the community should guarantee contingencies to ensure that the scientist is committed to consistent epistemic values and that the incorporation of anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and anti-patriarchal critique into the worldview of behavior analysts would serve as an antidote against intolerable practices of human subjugation.
- Subjects
VALUES (Ethics); BEHAVIORAL assessment; BEHAVIOR analysts; CONSCIOUSNESS; SCIENTIFIC community; WORLDVIEW
- Publication
Behavior & Philosophy, 2023, Vol 51, p125
- ISSN
1053-8348
- Publication type
Article