ABSTRACT
Unlike my colleague, Robert Epstein, I detect as much consensus as controversy in these articles, at least at one significant level. From the diversity of these papers emerges the seemingly undisputed view that Skinner pioneered in developing the sparse, minimalist doctrines of behaviorism and persisted in sustaining his vision during many long years while psychology has flourished in other and fruitful directions: psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, revolutionary developments in artificial intelligence and the new conglomeration of cognitive science. There was always, of course, the aura of ideology, excusable, perhaps, in a pioneer struggling against indigenous doctrines and competing explorers eager to stake claims on the same territory.
