ABSTRACT

For several reasons, I feel a little out of place writing this chapter for a book with the title Behavioral Science: Philosophical, Methodological, and Empirical Advances. In this chapter I make extensive use of case studies, or more accurately, autobiographical retrospections; it is much more like pre-science than experimental science. The technology I describe is not sufficiently reliable or powerful that it should be considered a major advance, and I frequently infer that private events have a causal status; some methodological behaviorists have suggested such inferences are more mentalistic than behavioral.