Reviews for The New Behaviorism: Mind, Mechanism and Society

The average rating for The New Behaviorism: Mind, Mechanism and Society based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-06-17 00:00:00 Sean Bronstein The New Behaviorism starts off by giving a history of Behaviorism and Skinner. It then gives examples of some contrasting scientific methods, a philosophical interrogation of Behaviorism (and Cognitivism), and finally a proposed future direction. It is written for the a sophisticated lay reader interested in understanding Behaviorism and I think it probably does that quite well. The philosophical explanations are clear even if some of Staddon's interpretations are not well-founded. Worth a read if you don't know much about the subject already, and worth a skim even if you do.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-05 00:00:00 WILLIAM Richmond William Baum wrote a better review than I could if he didn't write the review I would have liked to have written. Check out his review in The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. I had to wade through the first 7 chapters and enjoyed the last five chapters.