ABSTRACT
As one might have expected, there is little consensus and a great deal of controversy in this volume. Perhaps it needs a new title. On only one matter—which, unfortunately, is given little treatment—is there universal agreement and, indeed, praise: Skinner has made significant contributions to the scientific understanding of behavior. His first book, The Behavior of Organisms (1938), is singled out repeatedly as a tour de force. Skinner as researcher and methodologist is untouchable; consider the matter closed.
