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Index
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Prologue
Introduction · E.O. Wilson and Julie Vargas
Chapter 1 · “Selection by Consequences”: The Essential B.F. Skinner
The Behavioral Century
Skinner’s New Paradigm
The Vocabulary of Operant Conditioning
Reinforcers, Cues, and Operant Shaping
Beyond a Technology of Behavior
Selection by Consequences
Chapter 2 · Human Sociobiology: The Essential E.O. Wilson
The HMS Beagle to the Modern Synthesis
Sociobiology and the New Synthesis
Human Sociobiology
Gene-Culture Coevolution
Additional Considerations
Consilience
Chapter 3 · A Consilient View of B.F. Skinner and E.O. Wilson: The Operant Foundation of Sociobiology
Radical Behaviorism
Aligning Skinner and Wilson
The Dilemma of Free Will
Language and Culture
Units of Culture
Culturgens and Epigenesis
The Operant Basis of Sociobiology
A Conversation
Chapter 4 · Conversation Between B.F. Skinner and E.O. Wilson
Notes
Chapter 5 · To What Beginning?
Skinner’s Technology of Behavior
Wilson’s Consilient Worldview
Chapter 6 · The Challenge: A More Integrated Approach to Human Nature
Skinner and Wilson
Enlarging the Conversation
Mirror Neurons and Imitation
Developmental Plasticity and Evolution
Rational Behaviorism and Emergents
Final Thoughts
Epilogue: Some Historical Notes and Indications of the Future
The Position of Darwinism in Contemporary Psychology
Problems with the Concept of Reinforcement
Rational Behaviorism as the Next Step
Sneaking Up on Cognitivism
Twentieth Century Cognitivists
A More Useful View of Reinforcement
Rational Behaviorism and the Future
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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