The present research had as its objective to analyze the development of epistemological, ontological, and methodological assumptions defended by B. F. Skinner and his propositions to intervene in social questions between 1953 and 1960. To a certain extent, we sought to continue the research of Andery ( 1990 , Uma tentativa de (re)construção do mundo: A ciência do comportamento como ferramenta de intervenção [ An attempt to (re)construct the world: Behavioral Science as an intervention tool ] [Doctoral dissertation, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP]), in which all of Skinner’s publications from between 1931 and 1953 were analyzed, with Science and Human Behavior as the last analyzed work. We investigated how Skinner advanced in the definition of the assumptions of his science and the proposition of social analysis and interventions in the first years after the publication of Science and Human Behavior . All of Skinner’s available texts, published between 1953 and 1960 after Science and Human Behavior , were identified and collected in order to classify how much of Skinner's explanatory system it had been changed/maintained when compared with its previous development . We analyzed the selected texts based on 2 categories: (a) excerpts related to the constitution of ontological, epistemological, and methodological assumptions of behavioral science and (b) excerpts related to the constitution of social propositions. There were additions, but no rupture, in all categories analyzed when we compared our data with those of the period analyzed by Andery ( 1990 ). The results obtained in the present research allow us to maintain that Skinner improved the assumptions of his science and his social proposals, introducing new conceptual discussions and new data from relevant basic and applied research.

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1953 年至 1960 年 BF Skinner 的科学前提和社会建议

在《科学与人类行为》出版后的头几年，我们调查了斯金纳如何在定义他的科学假设以及社会分析和干预的命题方面取得进展。在《科学与人类行为》之后 1953 年至 1960 年间出版的所有斯金纳可用的文本都被识别和收集，以便对斯金纳的解释系统与之前的发展相比有多少被改变/维护进行分类。我们根据 2 个类别分析了所选文本：（a）与行为科学的本体论、认识论和方法论假设的构成相关的摘录，以及（b）与社会命题的构成相关的摘录。有添加，但没有破裂，在我们将我们的数据与 Andery (1990 ) 分析的时期的数据进行比较时分析的所有类别中。在本研究中获得的结果使我们能够认为，斯金纳改进了他的科学假设和他的社会建议，引入了新的概念讨论和来自相关基础和应用研究的新数据。