A Matter of Consequences.

SKINNER, B.F. [Edward O. Wilson].

Item Number: 131078

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.

First edition of this work by the father of behavioral analysis. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ed Wilson, Not quite the end of my story. See the back Fred.” The recipient, Edward O. Wilson was a colleague and friend of Skinner’s at Harvard University where they both taught. Wilson has been called “the father of sociobiology” and “the father of biodiversity” for his environmental advocacy, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters. They were the subject of the work, E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner: A Dialogue Between Sociobiology and Radical Behaviorism. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional association copy, linking two intellectual giants of the twentieth century.

A third and final autobiographical volume by the controversial psychologist and philosopher delineates his methods and philosophical principles, defends his behavioral philosophy and concerns against detractors, and discusses his family, interests, and relationships.