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Explanations of Human Action
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2010
Extract
In order to explain the behavior of a human organism, it is necessary to take its environment into consideration. Except for very severe psychotic withdrawal, this has been recognized as a near triviality since Aristotle. But although consideration of the environment may be necessary, it is not sufficient, and it is now generally conceded that a man's behavior cannot be explained solely from a consideration of his present environment and a history of his responses to past environments.
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- Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , June 1967 , pp. 18 - 28
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- Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1967
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1 References to the psychological literature and a discussion of these experiments can be found in chapters 8 and 9 of Charles Taylor's The Explanation of Behaviour (London, 1964).