Author:
Wheeler, Harvey, 1918-2004.
Imprint:San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, [1973]
Descriptionviii, 274 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:Papers presented at a symposium organized by J. H. Wheeler and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, held in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Note:1. Introduction: A nonpunitive world? / Harvey Wheeler -- 2. The Skinnerian revolution / John R. Platt -- 3. Behavioral technology and institutional transformation / Dennis C. Pirages -- 4. Controlled environments for social change / Vitali Rozynko, Kenneth Swift, Josephine Swift, Larney J. Boggs -- 5. Operant behaviorism: fad, fact-ory, and fantasy? / Karl H. Pribram -- 6. Great expectations / Arnold Toynbee -- 7. Behaviorism's enlightened despotism / Chaim Perelman -- 8. Some aversive responses to a would-be reinforcer / Max Black -- 9. Can any behavior be conditioned? / Robert Rosen -- 10. How good is current behavioral theory? / John Wilkinson -- 11. A system-theoretic view of behavior modification / L.A. Zadeh -- 12. Questions / Fred Warner Neal -- 13. Skinner and human differences / Arthur R. Jensen -- 14. Skinner's new broom / Alexander Comfort -- 15. Beyond B.F. Skinner / Lord Ritchie-Calder -- 16. Skinner and "Freedom and Dignity" / Nathan Rotenstreich -- 17. Is he really a grand inquisitor? / Michael Novak -- 18. A quier of queries / Joseph Schwab -- 19. Answers for my critics / B.F. Skinner.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. [267]-274.
