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Authoritative reappraisal of the role of Skinner and contemporary behaviorists in the history of 20th-century psychology.

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

About the Author

JAMES T. TODD, Associate Professor of Psychology at Eastern Michigan University, specializes in experimental and applied behavior analysis. He is on the editorial board of The Behavior Analyst and is the president of the Behavior Analysis Association of Michigan. His articles on the history and misrepresentation of behaviorism have appeared in American Psychologist and in other journals.

EDWARD K. MORRIS is Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Life at the University of Kansas. His research interests include topics in the experimental and conceptual analyses of behavior and in the history and philosophy of psychology. He is a past president of the Association for Behavior Analysis and a fellow in the American Psychological Association. He is coeditor of Behavioral Approaches to Crime and Delinquency (1987). Todd and Morris also collaborated on the companion piece to this title, Modern Perspectives on John B. Watson and Classical Behaviorism (Greenwood, 1994).

Reviews

?This book most admirably lives up to its title. Most of the chapters are philosophical and theoretical perspectives on behaviorism as it currently exists in the discipline of behavior analysis. Scholars and students of behavior analysis will find the book useful to furthering their understanding of both the history of the discipline and its relation to other disciplines.?-Choice

"This book most admirably lives up to its title. Most of the chapters are philosophical and theoretical perspectives on behaviorism as it currently exists in the discipline of behavior analysis. Scholars and students of behavior analysis will find the book useful to furthering their understanding of both the history of the discipline and its relation to other disciplines."-Choice