Synopses & Reviews
A group of respected historians and authorities reassesses the role of B. F. Skinner and contemporary behaviorism in the history of 20-century psychology. This landmark collection provides an interesting mix of modern perspectives to clarify perceptions of the theories and approaches of Skinner and of other contemporary behaviorists. This reevaluation of the philosophical bases and development of behavior analysis offers new interpretations. This edited volume includes discussion and analyses of Skinner's work and features a section of integrative commentary on the current state of affairs in contemporary behavior analytic theory. An inductive approach is used, and general themes and details about Skinner and contemporary behaviorism appear and recur with variations in different chapters. Psychologists, historians, philosophers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students will also find the work important for its up-to-date comprehensive bibliography of Skinner's published works and for its lengthy historiography of important studies dealing with Skinner and behaviorism. This volume is a companion to Modern Perspectives on John B. Watson and Classical Behaviorism edited by Todd and Morris and published by Greenwood Press in 1994.
Synopsis
Authoritative reappraisal of the role of Skinner and contemporary behaviorists in the history of 20th-century psychology.
Synopsis
A group of respected historians and authorities reassess the role of B. F. Skinner and contemporary behaviorism in the history of 20th-century psychology. This landmark collection provides an interesting mix of modern perspectives to clarify perceptions of the theories and approaches of Skinner and of other radical and contemporary behaviorists. This reevaluation of the philosophical bases and development of behavior analysis offers new interpretation. Psychologists, historians, philosophers, and advanced undergraduates and graduate students will also find the work important for its first-to-date comprehensive bibliography of Skinner's published works and for its lengthy historiography of important studies dealing with Skinner and behaviorism. This volume is a companion to
Modern Perspectives of John B. Watson and Classical Behaviorism edited by Todd and Morris and published by Greenwood Press in 1994.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-261) and index.
About the Author
JAMES T. TODD, Associate Professor of Psychology at Eastern Michigan University, specializes in experimental and applied behavior analysis.EDWARD K. MORRIS is Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Life at the University of Kansas.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Foreword by Ernest R. Hilgard
Acknowledgments
Introduction by James T. Todd and Edward K, Morris
Perspectives on B. F. Skinner and Contemporary Behaviorism
Psychology 161 by Fred S. Keller
A Natural History of the Behavior of Organisms by Terry J. Knapp
In the Beginning by James A. Dinsmoor
Inquiry Nearer the Source by Laurence D. Smith
Some Historical and Conceptual Relations Among Logical Positivism, Behaviorism, and Cognitive Psychology by Jay Moore
On Certain Relations between Contemporary Philosophy and Radical Behaviorism by Willard F. Day, Jr., and Jay Moore
The Origin of Environment-Based Psychological Theory by Philip N. Hineline
Quantum Physics and Radical Behaviorism: Some Issues in Scientific Verbal Behavior by M. Jackson Marr
The Varied Usefulness of History, with Specific Reference to Behavior Analysis by Stephen R. Coleman
The Behavior of Organisms at Fifty by B. F. Skinner
Comments on B. F. Skinner and Contemporary Behaviorism
Beyond Behavior and the Environment by Vicki Lee
Continuity and Change Within Behavior Analysis by Gerald E. Zuriff
Things that Are Private and Things that Are Mental by Howard Rachlin
Selection in Biology and Behavior by A. C. Catania
Conclusion: Some Historiography of Behavior Analysis and Some Behavior Analysis of Historiography by Edward K. Morris, James T. Todd, Bryan D. Midgley, Susan M. Schneider, and Lisa M. Johnson
Appendix: An Updated Bibliography of B. F. Skinner's Works by Robert Epstein
Notes
References
Index