University Press of America
Pages: 226
Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-7618-3654-4 • Paperback • December 2006 • $50.99 • (£39.00)
Tibor Machan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Auburn University and the R.C. Hoiles Professor of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University, Orange, California. Professor Machan holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California—Santa Barbara.
Chapter 1 Science vs. Liberty
Part 2 Part I
Chapter 3 Skinner vs. Freedom, Dignity, and Liberty
Chapter 4 Is Skinnerism Science?
Part 5 Simple and Complex Reductionism
Chapter 6 The Values, Goals, and Wishes of B.F. Skinner
Part 7 Part II
Chapter 8 Science, Philosophy, and the Division of Labors
Chapter 9 Man, Science, and Freedom of Choice
Chapter 10 In Defense of Political Liberty
Chapter 11 Dignity—Its Best Chance in Freedom
Part 12 Endnotes
Part 13 Bibliography
Part 14 Index
Anyone who has interests within the behavioral and social sciences...should read this book. The issues raised by Machan [in 1973] remain pertinent today...
— Robert W. Proctor and Daniel J. Weeks; The American Journal Of Psychology, Summer 1990