Science and Human Behaviour - B.F. Skinner

KORTE INHOUD

The psychology classic—a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled—from one of the most influential behaviorists of the twentieth century and the author of Walden Two.
"The methods of science have been enormously successful wherever they have been tried. Let us then apply them to human affairs.
"The conception of the individual which ermerges from a scientific analysis is distasteful to most of those who have been strongly affected by democratic philosophies.
"When we turn to what science has to offer, however, we do not find very comforting support for the traditional western point of view. The hypothesis
that man is not free is essential to the application of scientific method to the study of human behaviour."
B.F. SKINNER
“This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. Many students of society and culture would take violent issue wit...
1965Taal: Engelszie alle details...