1st Edition

B.F. Skinner: Consensus And Controversy

Edited By Sohan Modgil, Celia Modgil Copyright 1987
    396 Pages
    by Routledge

    398 Pages
    by Routledge

    Published in the year 1987, B.F.Skinner: Consensus and Contribution is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.

    1: Introduction; 1: B.F. Skinner: Consensus and Controversy; 2: Reflections; 2: Controversy?; 3: Radical Behaviorism; 3: What Is Radical Behaviorism?; 4: The Implications of Radical Behaviourism; 3: Interchange; 4: The Epistemology of Radical Behaviorism; 5: Knowledge as Action; 4: An Exercise in Triviality: The Epistemology of Radical Behaviorism *; 4: Interchange; 5: A Psychological Analysis: Political, Social And Moral Implications; 7: B.F. Skinner: The Pragmatic Humanist; 8: Scolding the Carpenter; 5: Interchange; 6: Philosophy of Science and Psychology; 9: Skinner on Science *; 10: The Limits of Skinner's Philosophy of Science and Psychology; 6: Interchange; 7: Variation and Selection: The Evolutionary Analogy in Skinner's Theory; 11: Variation and Selection; 12: The Evolutionary Analogy in Skinner's Writings *; 7: Interchange; 8: The Explanatory Power of Skinnerian Principles; 13: The Explanatory Power of Skinner's Radical Behaviorism *; 14: The Explanatory Power of Radical Behaviorism *; 8: Interchange; 9: Skinner and the Unit of Behavior; 15: Skinner and the Unit of Behavior *; 16: Skinner, the Behavioral Unit, and Current Psychology; 9: Interchange; 10: Skinner's Position against Theory and against Mentalism; 17: Mentalism, Private Events, and Scientific Explanation; 18: Emergent Behaviorism *; 10: Interchange; 11: Skinner and the ‘Virtus Dormitiva' Argument; 19: Skinner Re-Skinned; 20: Skinner Placed: A Commentary on Place's ‘Skinner Re-Skinned'; 11: Interchange; 12: Rule-Governed Behavior: A Formulation in Terms of Complex Human Behavior; 21: Rule-Governed Behavior and Higher Mental Processes *; 22: Rule-Governed Behavior: An Implicit Analysis of Reference; 12: Interchange; 13: Skinner's Analysis of Perception/Cognition; 23: Perception and Action; 24: A Cognitive Approach to Behavior *; 13: Interchange; 14: Naturalistic Ethics; 25: Naturalist Ethics; 26: Practical Reason and a Science of Morals; 14: Interchange; 15: Afterword: Some Concluding Remarks; 27: In the Yellow Wood; 28: The Limits of Behaviorism; 16: Tabulated Summary; 29: Summary of Chapters and Interchanges

    Biography

    Sohan Modgil, Celia Modgil