4th Class: Behaviorism and the "Scientific" View Behaviorism is getting too much attention. B.F. Skinner, the Werner Ehrhard of an earlier generation, still receives some sort of obeisance. If, as the chapter indicates "behaviorism has roots in several philosophical traditions" Ozman 1999 211), then it is just as correct to assume that Freud's Oedipus complex had its origin in the time of the Greeks. In a sense, the core idea of Behaviorism is that if you can't see it, feel it, taste it, or smell it, it does not exist. Watson, for example "thought that the chief function of the nervous system is simply to coordinate senses with motor responses" (Ozman 1999 214).
Skinner tended to attack "what he called traditional views of humanity" (Ozman 1999 217). He denied, for
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