In hmolscience, Karl Lashley (1890-1958) was an American child prodigy turned zoologist-geneticist who, together with his mentor John Watson (1878-1958), penned some of the first arguments of behaviorism—the antagonist of dualism.
Quotes
The following are noted quotes:
“The essence of behaviorism is the belief that the study of man will reveal nothing except what is adequately describable in the concepts of mechanics and chemistry.”
— Karl Lashley (1928), “The Behavioristic Interpretation of Consciousness” [1]
References
1. (a) Lashley, Karl. (1928). “The Behavioristic Interpretation of Consciousness”, I (abs), II (abs), (Ѻ) Psychological Review, 30(4):237-72.
(b) Brown, Richard H. (1977). A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences (pg. 140). University of Chicago Press, 1989.
External links
● Karl Lashley – Wikipedia.