Jacob Robert Kantor

On August 8, 1888, Jacob Robert Kantor was born. Kantor was a prominent systematic psychologist who organized scientific values into a coherent system of psychology. From the interbehavioral perspective, self-actional causes, whether fictional events (e.g., mentalism) or fictional powers attributed to otherwise actual events (brain as cause of behavior), are anathema to science of psychology.

Rememberances and Remarks about Kantor

Dennis J. Delprato

J. R. Kantor's Contributions to Scientific Psychology The Interbehaviorist, 1987, 15, Nos. 2&4, 18-20, 41-42.

Jay Moore

Conceptual Contributions of Kantor's Interbehavioral Psychology. The Behavior Analyst, 1984, 7 (2), 183-187.
On reciprocal behaviorist concerns. The Interbehaviorist, 1984, 12 (5), 10-11.
He's always been there first The Interbehaviorist, 1987, 15, 46-48

Noel W. Smith

A Tribute to J. R. Kantor: Friend and Intellectual Liberator. In: Greek and Interbehavioral Psychology : Selected and Revised Papers of Noel W. Smith; Smith, Noel W.; 1993.

William S. Verplanck

Preface. In N. W. Smith, P. T., Mountjoy, & D. H. Ruben, Reassessment in Psychology: The Interbehavioral Alternative. 1983. Washington, D. C.: University Press.
A thought for The Interbehaviorist: Jacob Robert Kantor. The Interbehaviorist, 1984;
Some reflections on Kantor, Kantorians, and Kantor's career. The Interbehaviorist, 1995, 23, 6-12.

Irvin S. Wolf

JRK's 90th Birthday The Psychological Record, 1978, 28, 328.

Festschrifts

Reassessment in Psychology: The Interbehavioral Alternative; Smith, Noel W., Mountjoy, Paul T., Ruben, Douglas H. (Eds.) 1983. Washington, D. C.: University Press.
Psicología interconductual: Contribuciones en honor a J.R. Kantor; Hayes, Linda J., Ribes, Emilio, y Valadez, Francisco L. (Coordinadores) 1994. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico: Universidad de Guadalajara.

J. R. Kantor

Biography

Jacob Robert Kantor (1888-1984). The Interbehaviorist, 1989, 17, No. 2, 18-20.


JRK's Interbehavioral System: An Overview

Interbehavioral Field Psychology Noel W. Smith; PSICOLOGÍA INTERCONDUCTUAL DE CAMPO Traducido al español por: Ramón S. Abascal
Conversation Hour with J.R. Kantor 1977 meeting of the Midwest Association for Behavior Analysis. The Interbehaviorist, 1985, 13, No. 4, 28-32.
The Behavior Segment*
The Investigative Event*
Varying Sources of Scientific Construction*
  * In: Toward a scientific analysis of motivation. Psychological Record, 1942, 5, 225-275

Kantor Papers online


What qualifies interbehavioral psychology as an approach to treatment? In: Ruben, D.H. & Delprato, D.J. (Eds.). New ideas in therapy. Introduction to an interdisciplinary approach. Westport: Greenwood Press. 1987. 3-8.

Axioms and their role in psychology. Revista Mexicana de Análisis de la Conducta, 1981, Vol. 7, Num. 1., 5-11.

Wundt, Experimental Psychology and Natural Science. Revista Mexicana de Análisis de la Conducta, 1979, Vol. 5, Num. 2., 117-129.

Cognition as Events and as Psychic Constructions. The Psychological Record, 1978, 28, 329-342.

The principle of specificity in psychology and science in general. Revista Mexicana de Análisis de la Conducta, 1978, 4, 117-132.

Interbehavioral Psychology: How Related to the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. En Aportaciones al Análisis de Ia Conducta: Memorias del Primer Congreso, Mexico, Ed. Trillas, 1974, pp.15-22.

La Psychologie Organique. Revue de Psychologie Concréte,1929, 1, 75-88.

Memory: a triphase objective action. Journal of Philosophy, 1922, 19, 624-639.

A tentative analysis of the primary data of psychology, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, Scientific Method, 1921, 18, 253-269.

Intelligence and mental tests, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, Scientific Method, 1920, 17, 260-268.

Instrumental transformism and the unrealities of realism. The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and the Scientific Methods, 1919, 17, 449-461.

Human personality and its pathology, The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and the Scientific Methods, 1919, 16. pp. 236-246.

Psychology as a science of critical evaluation. Psychological Review, 1919, 26, 1-15.

The ethics of internationalism. International Journal of Ethics 1919, 29, 29-38.

Abstracts of several papers published in Revista Mexicana de Análisis de la Conducta (1975-1983), in English or Español

Books in print
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The Aim and Progress of Psychology and Other Sciences; 1971; $20.00
Cultural Psychology; 1982; $16.50
Interbehavioral Psychology; 1959; $15.00
The Logic of Modern Science; 1953; $15.00
An Objective Psychology of Grammar; 1936; $15.00
Principles of Psychology 1924-26; 1926; $20.00
Psychological Comments and Queries; 1984; $20.00
Psychological Linguistics; 1977; $15.00
Psychology and Logic; 1950; $25.00
The Science of Psychology : An Interbehavioral Survey; (with N. W. Smith) 1975; $20.00
Scientific Evolution of Psychology; 1969; $40.00
Tragedy and the Event Continuum; 1983 $15.00

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Interbehavioral philosophy; Unknown Binding
Selected Writings; 1984; Textbook Binding


Bibliography


In Obituario: J. R. Kantor (1888-1984); Emilio Ribes; Revista Mexicana de Análisis de la Conducta, 1984 Vol. 10, Num. 1., 15-36.

Personal effects


This is a very small sample of the types of holdings at the Archives of the History of American Psychology, at The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

A letter from the editor of The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Method to Kantor, accepting his Primary data paper for printing, in 1920.

The note found on Kantor's nightstand the morning after his death.