"This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. It is now widely recognized that great changes must be made in the American way of life. Not only can we not face the rest of the world while consuming and polluting as we do, we cannot for long face ourselves while...

Presents the argument that man's environment must be changed rather than man himself if the traditional goals of the struggle for freedom and dignity are to be reached. "In this profound and profoundly challenging book, the great behaviorist B.F. Skinner, regarded by many as the most influential and controversial living psychologist, author also of the celebrated utopian novel Walden Two, makes his definitive statement about man and society. Insisting...

"The work of B.F. Skinner reshaped the field of psychology. This vintage program consists of an archival discussion with Professor Skinner and the University of Oxford's Geoffrey Warnock, in which they engage in a good-natured debate on the presuppositions and morality of behavior control. Free will, operant behavior, contingencies of survival, environment, culture, the human capacity for self-analysis, and other key topics are all scrutinized in...