ب.ف. اسکینر: یک زندگی

The first major biography of America's preeminent psychologist--a riveting portrait of a controversial "social inventor" and entrepreneur whose ideas transformed education, childrearing, and community life. Bjork is the author of William James: The Center of His Vision. Photos. The first major biography of America's preeminent psychologist (B.F. Skinner), this book is a riveting portrait of a controversial "social inventor" and entrepreneur whose ideas transformed education, child rearing, and even community life. This book not only traces his life and work through all its controversy and complexity but also places his contribution firmly within the American tradition of utopian and social-political debate. Daniel W. Bjork explores how the conflict between Skinner's turn-of-the-century small-town upbringing and his avant-garde, intellectual education shaped his science and his ideas about its application. Based on intensive interviews with Skinner and his family, a thorough examination of the Skinner collection in the Harvard archives, and access to thousands of personal notes Skinner wrote to himself between 1950 and 1990, this fascinating biography is an important contribution to the history of science Portrait Of An American Psychologist Whose Ideas Transformed Education, Child Rearing, And Community Life. Inventive Beginnings -- Between Two Lives -- A Hill Of Dreams -- The Birth Of A New Science -- Behaviorist At Large -- The Social Inventor Emerges -- A Design For Living -- Educational Engineering -- Beyond The American Tradition -- Master Of Self-management. Daniel W. Bjork. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [273]-284) And Index. This biography of the psychologist B.F. Skinner, strips away many misconceptions about the great behaviourist pointing out that far from having a rigid, mechanistic view of humans, Skinner had an expansive, highly moral vision of the possibilities of human achievement.