Hayes, L. J., & Fryling, M. J. (2019). Functional and descriptive contextualism. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 14, 119-126.
Attempts have been made to characterize the psychological philosophy of Functional Contextualism by contrasting it with Descriptive Contextualism, the latter having been clarified by the example of Interbehaviorism. The argument is made that this strategy has not served the purpose of clarifying Functional Contextualism because Interbehaviorism is completely mischaracterized in these efforts. Misunderstandings pertaining to both the philosophy of Interbehaviorism and the system of Interbehavioral Psychology are corrected, along with the suggestion that Functional Contextualism would be better clarified by system-building efforts than by inaccurate comparisons with Interbehaviorism.
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