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438. 43. Rose, Governing the Soul. 44. Skinner, Behavior of Organisms, p. 441. Laurence D. Smith, "On Prediction Page 27 and Control: B. F. Skinner and the Technological Ideal of Science," American Psychologist 47 (1992): 216-23. 45. B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (New York: Macmillan, 1976), p. 241 (original work published 1948). 46. Laurence D. Smith, "Knowledge as Power: The Baconian Roots of Skinner's Social Meliorism," this volume. 47. Several of my conversations with Skinner attest to this pessimism.
He referred to the logicians Rudolph Carnap, Bertrand Russell, Gilbert Ryle, and W. V. Quine. In the field of language and behavior, he acknowledged Niko Tinbergen, Karl von Frisch, Grace DeLaguna, Florence Goodenough, Sigmund Freud, Carl G. Jung, and R. A. Paget. 42. Skinner, Behavior of Organisms, p. 438. 43. Rose, Governing the Soul. 44. Skinner, Behavior of Organisms, p. 441. Laurence D. Smith, "On Prediction Page 27 and Control: B. F. Skinner and the Technological Ideal of Science," American Psychologist 47 (1992): 216-23.
Bronislaw Malinowski, "The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages," appendix in Ogden and Richards, Meaning of Meaning, pp. 296-336, cited in n. 35. See the citation in Skinner, Verbal Behavior, p. 432. 41. In Verbal Behavior alone, Skinner cited the literary critics I. A. Richards, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, George Rylands, H. W. Fowler, William Empson, A. E. Housman, and L. P. Smith. He referred to the logicians Rudolph Carnap, Bertrand Russell, Gilbert Ryle, and W. V. Quine. In the field of language and behavior, he acknowledged Niko Tinbergen, Karl von Frisch, Grace DeLaguna, Florence Goodenough, Sigmund Freud, Carl G.
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