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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 53: Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge The second general impression that I record is that of the logical irrelevance of Watson's programme to what is currently called psy chology. For suppose that that programme were carried out to its last detail: how would introspective psychology be affected? Why, those who were interested in the method and results of introspection would simply start out where Watson had left off the universalistic psychology being completed, it would be in order for the individual istic to be begun. A shift of standpoint over against the world of experience means the appearance of a new subject matter, or (more strictly) of a new aspect of the common subject-matter; and any one aspect has the same claim to scientific consideration as any other; nor is there in science a Congregation of the Index to allow this and to forbid that. The behaviorist may, if he will, ignore conscious ness in a psychological sense he may use consciousness as a tool without making it a special object of observation; there is none to say him nay but why should not some one who is not a behavior ist scrutinize what he has ignored, and try to find out empirically of what materials this particular tool is made? Logically, so far as I can see, lbehaviorism is irrelevant to introspective psychology. Materially, I believe that psychology will be furthered by it, since increased knowledge of the bodily mechanisms, of anything that pertains to Avenarius' System C, means greater stability of certain parts of the system of psychology. Neither logically nor materially can behaviorism replace psychology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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