Some more similarities between Peirce and Skinner

Response to Kreuter and Skinner.

I want to commend Matt Kreuter and Celette appropriately labeled ‘targeted’ interventions. Unfortunately, although we would now never call Skinner for their Editorial entitled ‘Tailoring: Clear Horizons a tailored program, in the evolution what’s in a name?’ (Kreuter and Skinner, 2000). of terminology, the titles of our papers stand. I could not agree more with their argument that I commend the...

Temperate Regions—some Differences and Similarities

Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)

In 1942, the United States Supreme Court Case of Skinner v. Oklahoma ruled that states could not legally sterilize those inmates of prisons deemed habitual criminals. Skinner v. Oklahoma was about the case of Jack Skinner, an inmate of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, who was subject to sterilization [3] under the Oklahoma Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act of 1935. The ...

Peirce and Frege on Logic

Though Peirce and Frege played crucial roles in the development of modern logic, there has been so far little scholarly work comparing their positions on the nature of logic. I offer here a comparative study of their views on logic and I show that, although they developed their views independently from each other and with very different projects in mind, their positions are extremely similar (e...

Looking for Skinner and finding Freud.

Sigmund Freud and B. F. Skinner are often seen as psychology's polar opposites. It seems this view is fallacious. Indeed, Freud and Skinner had many things in common, including basic assumptions shaped by positivism and determinism. More important, Skinner took a clear interest in psychoanalysis and wanted to be analyzed but was turned down. His views were influenced by Freud in many areas, suc...