Notebooks - B.F. Skinner - 1980

An intimate journey into the mind of one of psychology's most influential and controversial figures, *Notebooks* offers unprecedented access to B.F. Skinner's private thoughts, observations, and intellectual development across decades of groundbreaking work. These personal reflections reveal the man behind the science—his curiosities, doubts, creative processes, and evolving understanding of human behavior. From early musings on learning and conditioning to sophisticated explorations of language, culture, and social design, Skinner's notebooks chronicle the development of behavioral psychology and its radical implications for understanding ourselves. Here we find not just the polished theories that revolutionized psychology, but the raw intellectual wrestling that produced them—false starts, sudden insights, and the methodical reasoning of a mind committed to empirical truth. For students of psychology, these entries provide invaluable insight into how revolutionary scientific ideas take shape. For general readers, they offer a fascinating portrait of an intellectual life dedicated to understanding what makes us human—and how that understanding might help us build a better world. - Notebooks - B.F. Skinner Published 1980, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Hardcover. Approx. 6x9in. 386pp. Faded boards. Otherwise in good vintage condition.