The Pseudo-Science of B. F. Skinner

by Tibor R. Machan

Book Overview

The Pseudo-Science of B.F. Skinner was Professor Tibor Machan's first book. Now, nearly forty years after its initial publication and after three dozen additional books published by Machan, it is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870002368
• ISBN13: 9780870002366
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not all of what science studies needs be deterministic

The most important thing Machan shows is that science should not prejudge how what it studies must behave. That's supposed to be a matter of discovery. So if it turns out, for example, that human beings cause some of their actions or have free will, that is what the science of human behavior, pace Skinner, must record. Otherwise science is prejudiced.