I really think BF Skinner's Pigeons should have made the list. Yeah it wasn't done with human subjects, but who can deny the similarities in the relationship to behavior and reward we show every day through things like organized religion and most pagan traditions?
Do you want to make a dollar bet that Skinner'll come back sometime in the next 5 years? He's under a shadow because he denied cognitive science was possible. As soon as we take the *possibility* of cognitive science for granted, Skinner's dismissal will cease to be news, or embarrassing, or a punishable transgression, and he'll be back.
Right now he's the Federalist party in 1815. It doesn't matter if he helped write the Constitution.
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Date: 2009-05-13 05:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-13 07:40 pm (UTC)Right now he's the Federalist party in 1815. It doesn't matter if he helped write the Constitution.
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Date: 2009-05-13 07:37 pm (UTC)That's handy, because I'm mired in totally rewriting a group lab.
I like it when power law distributions overlap.