On usefulness of the useless: Philosophy as the consciousness of scientific knowledge

Behavior and Philosophy 48:91-108 (2020)
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This essay explores some possibilities brought by the question about philosophy’s utility for science. We point to some arguments in favor of the importance of philosophy for science in general and Behavior Analysis in particular. We argue that philosophy is the consciousness of science. Without philosophical consciousness, science incurs epistemological naiveties; it uncritically defends scientific neutrality; it risks turning into a mere technique in the service of ideologies that endangers science’s existence. As the philosophy of Behavior Analysis, Radical Behaviorism can play the role of conscience of that science.

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Carlos Eduardo Lopes
Universidade Estadual de Maringa

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