E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner - Paul Naour

Preface Guidance for the Reader Chapter 1 Selection by Consequences: The Essential B.F. Skinner The Behavioral Century Skinner's New Paradigm The Vocabulary of Operant Conditioning Reinforcers, Cues, and Operant Shaping Discriminative Stimuli Beyond a Technology of Behavior Selection by Consequences Chapter 2 Human Sociobiology: The Essential E.O. Wilson The HMS Beagle to the Modern Synthesis Sociobiology and the New Synthesis Human Sociobiology Gene-Culture Coevolution Additional Considerations Consilience Chapter 3 A Consilient View of B.F. Skinner and E.O. Wilson Radical Behaviorism Aligning Skinner and Wilson Language and Culture Units of Culture Culturgens and Epigenesis The Operant Basis of Sociobiology Chapter 4 A Conversation Between B.F. Skinner and E.O. Wilson Endnotes: 130 Chapter 5 To What Beginning? Skinner's Technology of Behavior A Consilient Worldview Chapter 6 Proceeding to D. Rumbaugh's Rational Behaviorism Skinner and Wilson Enlarging the Conversation Mirror Neurons and Imitation Developmental Plasticity and Evolution Rational Behaviorism and Emergents Final Thoughts Glossary Bibliography

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