(PREVIEW) Walden Two Book Club

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Robert Parry-Cruwys

Behavioralscience, Education, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Social Sciences, Aba, Science, Specialeducation

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Are you mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore enough to move out to the country to a semi-anarcho-communist society where the prinicples of human behavior have created a utopia? Well, then you’ll probably enjoy our Summer 2023 discussion of B.F. Skinner’s novel, “Walden Two”. We talk for over two hours about the historical context, plot, and our impressions of this optimistic view of how behavior science might just be able to save the world from your own backyard. Plus, Rob makes a potentially groundbreaking discovery about Skinner’s comic-book collection. Come for the four-hour workdays, stay for the 50 amateur piano concertos!

Content discussed in this episode:

Skinner, B.F. (1948). Walden two. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.

Altus, D.E. & Morris, E.K. (2009). B.F. Skinner’s utopian vision: Behind and beyond “Walden Two”. The Behavior Analyst, 32, 319-335. doi: 10.1007/BF03392195

Todd, R. (1970, March 15). Walden two: Three? Many more? The New York Times.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Tracks preview of our summer 2020
0:18.1	Book Club. You're getting this in the free feed
0:21.4	because you're subscribed to the show.
0:22.9	And it's going to be just a snippet
0:24.4	of our book club discussion of Walden 2.
0:27.8	This is your first preview listening to the show.
0:30.3	Every season, we let listeners who subscribe to us
0:33.4	on our Patreon page,
0:35.0	patreon.com slash ABA Inside Track,
0:37.1	vote on a book that they would like to
0:39.2	hear us discuss. We discuss the book for two hours. Patrons are able to get two CEs for
0:44.5	their patronage. It's a big thank you. And then about a year later, for folks who are not
0:49.8	interested in joining us on Patreon, we usually release these, and you're still able to purchase the
0:54.9	for the two CEs if you would so be inclined. But because many of you may not know us for our
1:00.8	book clubs, we like to release a little preview, sort of get a taste of what some of our discussion
1:05.2	of the book is like. And so this summer, we are reading Walden 2 by B.F. Skinner. We said a lot about the book. We had a lot of mixed feelings about it. I learned a lot just from reading and then talking about it with everyone here. So I hope you get a chance to do the same. And again, if you really like it, feel free to get the rest of that immediately by going to patreon.com slash aBA inside
1:28.9	track and subscribing at the $10 level. Otherwise, you can wait for it. It'll eventually come out
1:33.4	in the free feed. But anyway, here is a preview of our Walden 2 discussion. Enjoy.
1:41.2	Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track Summer 2020,
1:46.3	book club. I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous book
1:53.6	buddies. Hey, Rob. It's me, Diana. And it's me, your furry pal, Jackie.
2:03.7	And it's me, your non-musical pal, Alan.
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