A pavlovian in spirit: Richard annells champion (1925–1999)

RICHARD (DICK) CHAMPION'S student and faculty positions were all at the University of Sydney, and he was never a member of the Pavlovian Society. On any measure of contemporary scholarly influence such as citation indices, the current impact of his some sixty papers and book (Champion, 1969) has not been great. Yet, as I hope to show in this tribute to my supervisor, who, from 1965 was professor and (intermittently) departmental head until his retirement in 1987, and who died suddenly in July at his home in Sydney, he made significant and lasting contributions to a better understanding of Pavlovian conditioning, learning theory, psychology, and the (interdisciplinary) empirical science of behavior. In addition, Dick was, I think, a Pavlovian in spirit, but I hope that the reasons for this more speculative view will emerge more clearly as I consider his conceptual contributions to the four scientific areas in the later sections.