El sueño de la razón: La utopía del conductista

Marta Gonzalez García

doi:10.5565/rev/athenead/v0n15.639

The Dream of Reason: Behaviorist utopia

Authors

Marta Gonzalez García

Abstract

This paper introduces two articles written by J. B. Watson, founder of behaviorism, for a general audience. Drawing upon them, it is discussed the role of utopia in science, the social context of radical behaviorism, and psychologists ideas on women, family and childrearing at the beginning of twentieth-century.

Keywords

J. B. Watson, Radical behaviorism, Science and utopia

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Author Biography

Marta Gonzalez García

Departamento de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad

Instituto de Filosofía, CCHS-CSIC