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Teleological behaviorism and altruism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Hugh Lacey
Hugh Lacey
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081 hlacey1@swarthmore.edu
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Abstract

Rachlin shows that experiments about social cooperation may fruitfully be grouped with experiments on self-control, and that this suggests interesting possibilities for practical behavioral controls. The concepts of selfishness and altruism, however, that inform his theorizing about these experiments, do not serve to provide understanding of the behavior that commonly is referred to, derogatorily, as selfish.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 266 - 267
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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