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>From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
Subject: Re: Intelligence Testing
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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 92 21:13:34 GMT
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In article <12182@optima.cs.arizona.edu> gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:

>No, behaviorism was pushed aside because it denied the importance of
>one of the most fundamental aspects of human cognition -- self
>awareness.

As a historical claim, this is false.  Behaviourism was pushed aside
because it didn't do a good enough job of explaining human behaviour.
The most influential critiques of behaviourism, e.g. Chomsky's review
of Skinner's _Verbal Behavior_, said almost nothing about self-awareness.

-- 
Dave Chalmers                            (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
"It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."


