E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner A Dialogue Between Sociobiology and Radical Behaviorism /

• Main Author: Naour, Paul (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Anthropology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

"This is going to be a conversation that I will have with B.F. Skinner. This is Ed Wilson. He invited me by to talk about sociobiology." Thus began a 1987 conversation between E.O. Wilson, who embodies sociobiology, and B.F. Skinner, who personifies radical behaviorism. The two Harvard col...

Table of Contents:

• “Selection by Consequences”: The Essential B.F. Skinner
• Human Sociobiology: The Essential E.O. Wilson
• A Consilient View of B.F. Skinner and E.O. Wilson: The Operant Foundation of Sociobiology
• Conversation Between B.F. Skinner and E.O. Wilson
• To What Beginning?
• The Challenge: A More Integrated Approach to Human Nature.