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18Private Sociology: Unsparing Reflections, Uncommon Gains (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1996.Each contributor to this book has used personal experience as the basis from which to frame his individual sociological perspectives. Because they have personalized their work, their accounts are real, and recognizable as having come from 'real' persons, about 'real' experiences. There are no objectively-distanced disembodied third person entities in these accounts. These writers are actual people whose stories will make you laugh, cry, think, and want to know more
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29On the prospects for a nomothetic theory of social structureJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 13 (3). 1983.
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64Four Concepts of Social StructureJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 19 (2): 195-211. 1989.
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Self talk and self reflectionIn Margaret Scotford Archer (ed.), Conversations About Reflexivity, Routledge. pp. 206--220. 2010.
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48Operant conditioning and teleologyPhilosophy of Science 47 (4): 568-582. 1980.This paper defends the relevance of Taylor's (1964) critique of S-R behaviorism to Skinner's model of operant conditioning. In particular, it is argued against Ringen (1976) that the model of operant conditioning is a nonteleological variety of explanation. Operant conditioning is shown unable, on this account, to provide a parsimonious and predictive explanation of the behavior of higher level organisms. Finally, it is shown that the principle of operant conditioning implicitly assumes a teleol…Read more
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22A response to Turner's behavioral theory of social structureJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 19 (1). 1989.
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208Methodological atheism, methodological agnosticism and religious experienceJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 36 (1). 2006.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
| Philosophy of Mind |
| Philosophy of Religion |