Assn 5. Due Monday, September 15
Make wiki pages: B. F. Skinner’s Walden Two
= 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?