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Touring the behaviorist contributions to free will would appear to require a very brief excursion. In Beyond Freedom and Dignity B. F. Skinner asserts that:
It is in the nature of an experimental analysis analysis of human behavior that it should strip away the functions previously assigned to autonomous man and transfer them one by one to the controlling environment (1971, p. 198).
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Waller, B. (1999). Free Will, Determinism, and Self-Control. 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_7
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