Journal article
Breaking the ontology taboo: Reply to Monestes and Villatte
Journal of contextual behavioral science, v 4(4)
01 Oct 2015
Abstract
Monestes and Villatte take issue with our contention that, contra strong claims of "a-ontology" associated with functional contextualism, science requires the assumption of a world, independent of our theories of it, with its own specific character. However, their primary criticism confounds the goals of science and associated criteria to evaluate those goals on the one hand with the forces that shape the behavior of the phenomena of interest on the other. We clarify this and other issues, and stand by our criticisms of stronger versions of a-ontology. (C) 2015 Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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- Title
- Breaking the ontology taboo: Reply to Monestes and Villatte
- Creators
- James D. Herbert - Drexel UniversityFlavia Padovani - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of contextual behavioral science, v 4(4)
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 2
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000218907100006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84948734224
- Other Identifier
- 991019168371204721
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- Psychology, Clinical