Stephen- Thanks for the link. That was a very well written piece and seems to me to be fairminded and to have, most likely, done a better job of keeping to the facts than the book and author it represents. It appears to me that a good exercise (for us and perhaps our advanced students) would be to compile the responses and have the students read the book and try to resolve the inequities. I can forsee a real difficult exercise for students to draw together some middle ground (the way this Times piece did) and to view the participants on both sides as both professionals and humans. That, btw, I believe to be the fault of this attempt at "unpacking"- I think the books author applied a well developed lens at the foibles of certain psychologists while forgetting some of the basic training on using her instrument- she forgot to examine her projections and told us a story about herself without realizing her role in it- a delightful technique for creating fictions but hardly fair when applied to flesh and blood professionals in the real world. I think some of the responses do much of the same- but at least they seem to have been drawn into it, as it were Just my two cents. Tim
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From: Stephen Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 5/2/2004 10:29 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
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Subject: Opening Skinner's Box one more time
We've posted so many urls on this that it's hard to keep track of
them, but as this one from the New York Times (Laura Miller,
"Unpacking Skinner's Box") carries the date of May 2, I think it's
new. Anyway, even though I'm only about half-way through it, it looks
good, so I rush to share.
It's at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/books/review/02MILLERT.html
Stephen
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