Behaviorism

A false theory of human psychology that ignores the contents of people's minds, their reasons, and their creative capacity.

Behaviorism represents a toxic combination of scientism, dehumanization, Inductivism, and Pessimism. It treats people as stimulus-response machines rather than universal explainers. Its methods are only instructive for understanding non-human animals.

Connections

• •Denies Creativity — the defining trait of Personhood
• •Rooted in Inductivism — assumes behavior is a predictable function of inputs
• •Expresses Pessimism — denies the open-ended capacity of the human mind
• •Ignores the role of Conjecture in human thought
• •Related to Genetic Determinism — both deny mental autonomy
• •Contradicted by Disobedience — people's inherent unpredictability through knowledge creation