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This is a list of books and articles by and interviews with the British intellectual historian, Quentin Skinner. [1] Regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought for his work on historical method, [2] Skinner's principal empirical focus as a historian has been on the history of Early Modern political thought.
The experimental analysis of behavior is a science that studies the behavior of individuals across a variety of species. A key early scientist was B. F. Skinner who discovered operant behavior, reinforcers, secondary reinforcers, contingencies of reinforcement, stimulus control, shaping, intermittent schedules, discrimination, and generalization.
Behavioral momentum is a theory in quantitative analysis of behavior and is a behavioral metaphor based on physical momentum.It describes the general relation between resistance to change (persistence of behavior) and the rate of reinforcement obtained in a given situation.
James L. Skinner (born August 17, 1953) [1] is an American theoretical chemist. He is the Joseph O. and Elizabeth S. Hirschfelder Professor Emeritus at the University Wisconsin-Madison . [ 2 ] Until 2024 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Welch Foundation . [ 3 ]
The three-term contingency (also known as the ABC contingency) is a psychological model describing operant conditioning in three terms consisting of a behavior, its consequence, and the environmental context, as applied in contingency management.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher.
The extension to gravity was given by Cachazo & Skinner, [32] and formulated as a twistor string theory for maximal supergravity by David Skinner. [33] Analogous formulae were then found in all dimensions by Cachazo, He and Yuan for Yang–Mills theory and gravity [34] and subsequently for a variety of other theories. [35]
Quentin Skinner was born near Manchester, the second son of Alexander Skinner (died 1979) and Winifred Skinner, née Duthie (died 1982). Though his family background is Scottish, and his father spent his career in the civil service in West Africa, he was raised and educated in England. [3] He was educated at Bedford School from the age of seven.