While I appreciate David P. Barash’s fine essays, I take exception to his latest (“B.F. Skinner, Revisited,” The Chronicle Review, April 1). In it, he manages to misrepresent the views of not one but ...
The tradition of sharing a Quote of the day often brings timeless wisdom from influential thinkers into everyday conversations. These reflections, drawn from philosophers, scientists, writers and ...
B. F. Skinner is arguably psychology’s most influential academic, and is perhaps second only to Freud in terms of psychological scholars who have had an impact on society at large. And as with Freud, ...