Philosophy and behaviorism. A logical, ontological, epistemological and existential relationship

  • José Nava Bedolla Instituto Superior de Ciencias de la Educación del Estado de México

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to analyze the type of relationships that can be established between philosophy and behavioral theory applied to education. It was started from the assumption that the aforementioned relationships are established in the sense that the engine that promotes the principles of science or knowledge that are used to elaborate the discourses of behaviorist theory are the existential, epistemological, ontological and logical needs of the knowing subject depending on circumstances of mode, time and place. It was a meta-scientific study, that is, epistemological. It was intended to make science of science, or what is the same, knowledge of knowledge; to appreciate the scope and limitations of the behavioral theory applied to education in relation to the idea of ??philosophy. In a first movement, the definition of the category named with the word << philosophy >> is reworked. Second, the mapping of the stated idea is reconstructed with the term "behaviorist theory". Finally, the <<relations>> between philosophy and behaviorist theory are established, based on the existential needs of the knowing subject. The results reveal the existence of a relationship or correspondence between philosophy and behaviorist theory applied to education in terms of existential, epistemological, ontological and logical needs of the knowing subject. The above allows to conclude, among other things, that the mapping of the concept mentioned with the voice <<behaviorism>> is established in terms of some definition of the notion mentioned with the voice << philosophy >> that determines the use of certain principles of knowledge or science depending on the logical, ontological, epistemological and existential needs of the knowing subject of the behaviorist theory. Then then, it is possible to suspect that every theory, in addition to being neutral, is determined by the needs mentioned in the preceding paragraph.

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Published
2021-01-20
How to Cite
Nava Bedolla, J. (2021). Philosophy and behaviorism. A logical, ontological, epistemological and existential relationship. RICSH Iberoamerican Journal of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 10(19), 201 - 237. https://doi.org/10.23913/ricsh.v10i19.240
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Research Articles