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One of the most important philosophical criticisms leveled at behaviorism is that it lacks the tools required for an analysis of the first-person perspective (Malcolm, 1963, see Day, 1977/1992; Lycan, 1990; Rorty, 1994). If this criticism were valid, it would indeed be a grave, if not fatal, flaw. No psychological perspective, not even the behaviorism of John Watson, has yet been able to argue compellingly against consciousness and experience.
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Hayes, S.C., Wilson, K.G., Gifford, E.V. (1999). Consciousness and Private Events. In: Thyer, B.A. (eds) The Philosophical Legacy of Behaviorism. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9247-5_6
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