A01=Marc N. Richelle
Author_Marc N. Richelle
Aversive Controls
behaviour
Category=JMAL
conditioning
Diderot
Epistemological Cognitivism
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Ethological Tradition
Follow
Freud's Mental Apparatus
ideas
Locomotor Activity
Lov
Open Peer Commentaries
operant
Overt Verbal Behaviour
position
Psychological Science
RADICAL BEHAVIOURISM
Skinner Box
skinner's
Skinner's Ideas
Skinner's Position
Skinner's View
Skinner's Work
Skinner's Writings
Species Specific Behaviour
Teaching Machines
Term Conditioning
Thoreau
USA
verbal
views
Violated
work
writings
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780863773914
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jul 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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B.F. Skinner died in August 1990. He had been praised as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, but was also attacked by a variety of opponents within and outside the field of psychology. This introduction to his work is first of all a guide to a correct reading of his writings, a reading devoid of the distortions and misinterpretations often conveyed by many commentators, including psychologists. It frames Skinner's contributions with reference to major European traditions in psychological sciences, namely Pavlov, Freud, Lorenz and Piaget. Crucial aspects of Skinner's theory and methodological stands are discussed in the context of contemporary debates: special attention is devoted to the relationship of psychology with biology and the neurosciences, to the cognitivist movement, to the status of language and to the explanation of novelty and creativity in human behaviour.; Finally, Skinner's social and political philosophy is presented with an emphasis on the provocative aspects of an analysis of current social practices which fail to solve most of the urgent problems humankind is confronted with today. Both in science proper and in human affairs at large, Skinner's thought is shown to be not behind, as is often claimed, but ahead of the times, be it in his interactive view of linguistic communication, in his very modern use of the evolutionary analogy to explain the dynamics of behaviour, or in his vision of ecological constraints.
