3.95 avg rating — 1,271 ratings

"This is an excellent introduction to radical behaviorism which is rather concise and to the point. "

4.05 avg rating — 120 ratings

"A modern look at radical behaviorism. It does justice to Skinner's own About Behaviorism, but is more technical. "

4.03 avg rating — 1,872 ratings

"An in depth look at behaviorism by B.F. Skinner. More comprehensive than About Behaviorism. "

4.14 avg rating — 413 ratings

"A look at how people use and learn language. "

3.63 avg rating — 422 ratings

"A book that challenges nativist and cognitivist theories like those of Chomsky and Steven Pinker"

4.48 avg rating — 42 ratings

"There's no denying that psychology has moved past pure behavior analysis, even if one rejects cognitivism. Behaviorism must integrate with neuroscience, and connectionist modeling provides an excellent methodology. With connectionism bridging the gap between behavior analysis and neuroscience, one has a powerful overarching paradigm for understanding human behavior without recourse to a mind."

4.04 avg rating — 787 ratings

"The quintessential book about eliminative materialism. Has a stunning criticism of cognitive theories (under the name functionalist psychology, named not for the pre-behaviorist methodology, but the philosophy of mind which spawned cognitivism and the computational theory of mind)"

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 62 ratings

"A look at how connectionist models provide a foundation for a naturalistic epistemology. "

3.84 avg rating — 795 ratings

"A look at how neuroscience can explain complex human behavior, particuarly, morality, which is one of the most prominent and important features of human behavior. Critiques cognitive theories like Mark Hauser's moral module theory (inspired by Chomsky's language module idea)"