The Selection of Behavior. The Operant Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences

Preface List of contributors Introduction: the operant behaviorism of B. F. Skinner A. Charles Catania Part I. Canonical Papers of B. F. Skinner: 1. Selection by consequences 2. Methods and theories in the experimental analysis of behavior 3. The operational analysis of pyschological terms 4. An operant analysis of problem solving 5. Behaviorism at fifty 6. The phylogeny and ontogeny of behavior Part II. Summing Up: 7. What are the scope and limits of radical behaviorist theory Stevan Harnad 8. Problems of selection and phylogeny, terms and methods of behaviorism A. Charles Catania Appendix. Biographical sketch and bibliography of works by B. F. Skinner Acknowledgments and notes References Name index Subject index.