ABSTRACT
In discussing radical behaviorism in contrast to emergent behaviorism we find ourselves comparing a proposal for a science of behavior and some products of this proposal with only a proposal. What is made clear by Killeen’s comments is that accounts offered by radical behaviorists can suffer from the same shortcomings as mentalistic accounts. Accounts within the behavioral camp have at times been incomplete and ad hoc. It is to the credit of the behavioral approach that such accounts are easily detected by virtue of the clearly expressed criteria for an adequate account—prediction and control.
