Talk:Verbal Behavior (book)
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This was basically a wedge to glamorize Chomsky's attack on verbal behavior. It linked heavily to Chomksy, presented Skinner's book as a part of the Empiricism v. Rationalism debate it was not (that was Chomksy's debate, not Skinner's) and talked more about cognitive crap than anything.
I nuked all references to Chomsky's book. They are not at all relevant to this book. The review is a total bastardization of the ideas in the book. Chomsky's review belongs on the Chomsky page.
I added links to Behavior Analysis, which is the field that does research today using Skinner's analysis of language. I added brief mentions of Skinner's verbal units, and will add definitions later. I nuked the Camel & Arab link, although it is sympathetic to Skinner and criticizes Chomsky correctly, it basically mangles Skinner's arguments and is simply a defensive argument. It too belongs on Chomsky's page, not this one.
-F
It seems there are some "Neutral Point Of View" Issues with this page. And basic errors.
It should probably be taken down until someone with less of an agenda, more specific knowledge, respect for grammatical/spelling conventions etc writes one...
Until modifications are made, I don't think it can represent the wiki-way. As it were.
Any disagreement?
- I've taken down the last set of edits, but they looked as if they could have been beaten into shape (although I know nothing at all about the book). The language did seem to be a personal essay (including at least one "I"), and a tad POV. If you think that there is the basis for improvement, then please go ahead. Noisy | Talk 22:14, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)
