Science, philosophy and man's mind.
This paper argues, in disagreement with most of the writers in the special issue [see Reyna (1995) Cognition, behavior and causality: A broad exchange of views stemming from the debate on the causal efficacy of human thought, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 20(3)], that: (1) science cannot be separated from philosophy even for the purpose of trying to see which set of assumptions is more "pragmatically useful;" (2) a true understanding of causality eliminates skepticism and reveals why private, conscious events are causes of action; (3) consciousness is directly observable; and (4) the belief in cognition, far from divorcing man from the real world of action, points to the actual cause of action and of political change.
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College of Business & Management, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA.
D001527:Behaviorism; D019336:Cognitive Science; D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans; D019222:Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; D010684:Philosophy; D011057:Politics; D014836:Volition