Assn 5. Due  Monday, September  15

= Link your pages to the Walden Two page on the wiki.

= While the easiest way to marshal material is to excerpt it from the web, writing the material yourself, based in books, articles and other non-electronic sources, is the way of academic, intellectual life. Pursue knowledge through McCulloch Library’s many resources. In addition, your text offers additional reading that can help us understand the text.

= At a minimum, you need to help your classmates understand, recognize or know the following:

= Who was B.F. Skinner?

= What were Skinner’s ideas about behavior? Psychology?

= Who was John Stuart Mill?

= What is utilitarianism?

= What has happened to the ideas Skinner proposed in Walden Two?

= What else can you contribute to the conversation?

= What else does the web offer?

= What questions can you pose that will help us understand the ideas of this book and their relevance to us?

= What (dis)connection or (ir)relevance does Thoreau’s Walden have for this book?

= What, if any, is the significance of the year of the composition of Walden Two?

=  Why should we know about utilitarianism to understand this book thoroughly?