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- Title
ON USEFULNESS OF THE USELESS: PHILOSOPHY AS THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.
- Authors
Laurenti, Carolina; Eduardo Lopes, Carlos; Damásio Abib, José Antônio
- Abstract
This essay explores some possibilities brought by the question about philosophy's utility for science. We point to some arguments in favor of the importance of philosophy for science in general and Behavior Analysis in particular. We argue that philosophy is the consciousness of science. Without philosophical consciousness, science incurs epistemological naiveties; it uncritically defends scientific neutrality; it risks turning into a mere technique in the service of ideologies that endangers science's existence. As the philosophy of Behavior Analysis, Radical Behaviorism can play the role of conscience of that science.
- Subjects
SCIENTIFIC knowledge; CONSCIOUSNESS; BEHAVIORAL assessment; PHILOSOPHY of science; CONSCIENCE
- Publication
Behavior & Philosophy, 2020, Vol 48, p91
- ISSN
1053-8348
- Publication type
Article