Behaviorism as philosophy

Marino Pérez wrote in ‘Contingency and drama’:

As a philosophy, behaviorism could develop an organized ontology on the role of behavior in both biological evolution and in the development of life on a historical, cultural, psychological and, ultimately, anthropological scale. The issue would be that behavior states the potential mediations between the three ‘genera of materiality’ or, if preferred, the three structures of cultural materialism. By itself, behavior is constitutive of knowledge, naturally, a knowledge wishing to be in a locical-material epistemology. So it could be that the behavior is more important than to be merely the subject of science, but this was the “science of behavior”. Thus, behaviorism as a philosophy of behavioral science or psychology would have to be reversed over a philosophy, because behavior would not be just a matter of psychology.

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