Institute of Political Science and Institute of Philosophy
University of Wrocław
invite you to a lecture by:
Prof. Dr Tevfik ALICI
(Bursa Uludağ University)
RADICAL BEHAVIORISM
REFORMULATED AS AN EXTENSION TO PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING
Place: Institute of Political Sciences, ul. Koszarowa 3, room 215
Time: Thursday, April 11, 2019, 13:45
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Prof. Tevfik Alici received his Ph.D from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, in the field of Behavioral Neuroscience, and his M.A. from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, in Experimental Pscyhology. He was a researcher in Psychopharmacology Program of Gulhane Military Medical Academy, in Ankara, between 2002-2004, doing ‘drug discrimination’ research. He then became an Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology in Mugla University, where he stayed until 2009.
Dr. Alici is currently a professor and the chair of Psychology Department in Uludag University, where he teaches and does research in the fields of learning, biological, cognitive and comperative psychology. His book ‘Scientific Bases of Learning’, published in 2009 (in Turkish), receieved the Textbook Award of 2010 by Turkish Academy of Sciences, and still is the only book in psychology with this award. He has another book called ‘A Real Illusion: Consciousness’ published (in Turkish) by one of the major publishers in Turkey. He is also the translater of the book The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment.
Dr. Alici is currently doing research, with his graduate students, on behavioral models of both substance and behavioral addictions. Also he has been, for the last five years now, working on several books on theoretical and philosophical issues of radical behaviorism, and possible applications of a new way of understanding it.