November 12th, 2021
- Read this very post-average article on the implications of PCT
- I was kind of disappointed by it
- it's mostly taking a fairly academic stance
- which I guess makes sense in context
- but I was hoping for a bunch more of the societal implications, which are sort of in there but buried under academic frames
- the other thing I noticed about it was that it was still so so reactionary against behaviorism
- and there's value to this but I find myself wanting an articulation of PCT that barely references behaviorism, and instead just talks about how much sense the theory makes, on its own terms
- and then maybe sort of after conveying its whole frame in such a coherent way, it spends some time talking about how behaviorism is confused?
- idk, there's value to Ruling Out Everything Else
- Book/Making Sense of Behavior is pretty good at this, though it does spend a little time discussion the confusions of behaviorism