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Control and Unfreedom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Felix E. Oppenheim
Felix E. Oppenheim*
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Stanford University
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1. Introduction. Now that operationalism has evolved from a battle cry of a militant minority to a widely accepted maxim of scientific method, and has in the process lost much of its initial intransigeance, it seems time to devote more attention to the application of operational analysis to the social sciences. This paper attempts to explicate some basic concepts in the behavioral sciences, both individual and social, namely, ‘control’ and ‘unfreedom,’ as well as the concepts by which they will be defined, such as ‘persuasion,’ ‘constraint,’ ‘deprivation,’ and ‘punishment’. This analysis will enable us to ascertain with greater precision some of the rather intricate connections which exist between these relations.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 1955, pp. 280 - 288
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1955

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