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Diversity in the Behavioral Sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

William Sacksteder
William Sacksteder*
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University of Colorado
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It is fairly usual to argue or to assume that there is a single pattern of proper scientific endeavor for the behavioral sciences. This is based, one is inclined to say, on the superb model afforded by the natural science successes of the past few hundred years and on the common method which underlies and determines that model. Consequently, a protagonist can argue that within his own science, all opposed modes of thinking are archaic, peripheral, or unscientific, while his own at least prefigures fulfillment of true science. And it may even be claimed that other behavioral fields are special offshoots, subordinate provinces, or particularizations which are reducible to his favored scheme of analysis. Such diversity and disagreement as there is, it can be said, stems from either of two causes. The first is the stubbornness of men, whereby they refuse to face the facts, to employ reasoning processes properly, or to foresake sinister interests. The other is the relative immaturity of behavioral science, an immaturity which will be eliminated by patient progress.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , October 1963 , pp. 375 - 395
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1963

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