A Science of Adaptation: the transnational origins of the American functional behaviorism of the 20th Century

Abstract

Introduction"… the historical approach to the understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter" (Boring, 1961, p. 3).This paper is a transnational historiography, and for our purposes, transnational historiography means the following: "When scientific knowledge flows between different countries, the ideas that emerge in one particular national context adapt to the new local contexts of A Science of Adaptation: the transnational origins of the American functional behaviorism of the 20th century.

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