The Last Three Books: A Collection

Description

This three-volume set of 58 papers, most of which were written during the last 15 years of Skinner’s life, includes such classics as Selection by consequences, Why I am not a cognitive psychologist, What religion means to me, The force of coincidence, The free and happy student, and his swan song, Can psychology be the science of mind?, an unyielding challenge delivered to the 1990 APA convention eight days before he died.

The three volumes have been revised and expanded with new forewords and the inclusion of material not easily found elsewhere, such as photographs, notes, a brief autobiography, and a collection of Skinner’s parodies, plays, and comic remarks given at convention banquets.

This collection is important, not just for Skinner scholars, but for anyone who appreciates the fundamental and pervasive role that principles of behavior play both in individual behavior and in most of the serious problems facing the world today.