I heart system building and philosophy in behavior analysis….I remember bringing up biological measures in BA…mainly because I believe we start thinking we are hardcore when we measure biological events, kind of like psychological events aren’t cool enough or something. This is just plain insecurity about our subject-matter, which we inherited from the Skinns who failed to differentiate us from biology in an adequate manner……
I am not sure if we have enough of a convo to “blog” about this though…..it may end like this 1) Psychological events are not to be reduced to biological events, that are independent events of an independent science, 2) biological events, like the events of all sciences occur simultaneously with psychological events along a continuum, but, measuring biological events doesn’t tell us anything about psychological events, it tells us something about biological events, and 3) if we want to talk about interdisciplinary science, we have to talk about the relationship between two independent events, in this case biological events and psychological events. For example, in Yukiko’s dissertation we should be talking about the relationship between her physio meausres and her behavioral measures, if we indeed want to call it an interdisciplinary study.
erickdubuque said,
January 14, 2008 at 10:23 pm
The podcast sounds great. I’m happy to see the blog is coming along nicely.
timfuller said,
January 15, 2008 at 2:17 am
Looking forward to future podcasts soon
Erick Dubuque said,
January 15, 2008 at 2:21 am
Hey All,
Any ideas for future blogs?
Genevieve said,
January 23, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I recall we planned to discuss creativity or biological measures in BA at some point, but never did.
Cristin Johnston said,
January 29, 2008 at 12:29 am
How about the importance of system building and philosophy in BA?
Mitch said,
January 29, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I heart system building and philosophy in behavior analysis….I remember bringing up biological measures in BA…mainly because I believe we start thinking we are hardcore when we measure biological events, kind of like psychological events aren’t cool enough or something. This is just plain insecurity about our subject-matter, which we inherited from the Skinns who failed to differentiate us from biology in an adequate manner……
I am not sure if we have enough of a convo to “blog” about this though…..it may end like this 1) Psychological events are not to be reduced to biological events, that are independent events of an independent science, 2) biological events, like the events of all sciences occur simultaneously with psychological events along a continuum, but, measuring biological events doesn’t tell us anything about psychological events, it tells us something about biological events, and 3) if we want to talk about interdisciplinary science, we have to talk about the relationship between two independent events, in this case biological events and psychological events. For example, in Yukiko’s dissertation we should be talking about the relationship between her physio meausres and her behavioral measures, if we indeed want to call it an interdisciplinary study.