No Virtue in Accident:
Behavior Analysis and Utopian Literature

No Virtue in Accident: Behavior Analysis and Utopian Literature
By Bobby Newman

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No Virtue in Accident is a study of the genre of utopian literature and behavioral theory. It explains the role of science in planning for personal and social happiness. It analyzes popular books in the utopian traditional from a behavioral perspective, and finds a proper place for Walden Two and behavioral thought within the utopian tradition.

Table of Contents

1. Biological and Behavioral Selection: They're both Humanistic Ideas
2. Humanistic views of Free Will
3. Why be Moral: Humanist and Behavioral Perspectives
4. Comte, Wells, Skinner and the Utopia of Science
5. A Clockwork Orange: Burgess and Behavioral Interventions
6. Brave New World Revisited Revisited: Huxley's Evolving View of Behaviorism
7. Discriminating Utopian from Dystopian Literature: Why is Walden Two Considered a Dystopia?
8. Behavior Analysis as Open Book Management
9. References

Format:	Paperback
Pages:	120
Author:	Newman, Bobby
Publisher:	Dove and Orca
Publish Date:	1998
ISBN-10:	096685280X
Language:	English