Did B. F. Skinner pioneer radical behaviorism?

Yes and one of my strongest criticisms on it would be the name itself. Radical sounds sectarian, extreme, wrong. Skinner as genious as he was, did not understand marketing. read more

B.F. Skinner’s idea of behaviorism is different from many other behaviorism schools of thought. “B. F. Skinner’s entire system is based on operant conditioning: “the behavior is followed by a consequence, and the nature of the consequence modifies the organisms tendency to repeat the behavior in the future,” a Skinner biography said. read more

B. F. Skinner was an American psychologist best-known for his influence on behaviorism. Skinner referred to his own philosophy as 'radical behaviorism' and suggested that the concept of free will was simply an illusion. All human action, he instead believed, was the direct result of conditioning. read more