The "-isms" and the "-ists"

A textbook that presents, one at a time or in pairs, more than twenty philosophical isms that run through behavior analysis, such as empiricism, determinism, pragmatism, positivism, mentalism, functionalism, selectionism, and behaviorism. Each chapter tells where the idea comes from, defines the term at three levels, separates it from the neighbors it is usually confused with, and says what behavior analysis adopts, modifies, rejects, or leaves open.

It is a first approximation, an initial verbal repertoire for navigating the related literature, not a reference work. Each chapter includes objectives, examples and non-examples, self-test questions, common mistakes, a summary, exercises with an annotated answer key, and a mastery criterion. Translated from the Brazilian Portuguese edition.

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