Stop.

If I were assessing CVs and I saw that I would be thinking about Richard’s comment about the whole situation.

I tend to agree with Richard, it’s a greater reflection of the flaws in how we valuate our work and each other in STEM and academia.

We who are applying his work in ABA (you) and behavioral neuroscience (me) have the greatest, not the least obligation to understand the critiques of his work and in those cases which are valid, to adjust our own understanding of our work accordingly. I would argue it’s a moral obligation.

The fact that Skinner himself mistakes his own pseudoscientific philosophy with his own actual science is actually the core issue, with Skinner, and his legacy, being discussed. You could learn a lot about that by reading critiques of Skinner. If you wanted to.

You’re training and background has taught you that Skinner is above criticism and I as an actual neuroscientist am telling you he is not above criticism. If you had read the paper you would know that it is Skinners philosophy on autonomy being discussed.

Talk to me after you’ve read Chomsky’s critique which we are discussing.

The way in which Skinner applies valid conclusions from his actual scientific research towards his pseudoscientific beliefs about autonomy and freedom, which seem motivated by political ideology more than anything is actually the whole thesis of that paper. Have you read it yet?

And again, I, am not ‘just a philosopher’ I am an animal behaviorist and published cellular neuroscientist, I am qualified to critique him, as a scientist, and at the moment what I am critiquing, is Skinner’s philosophy. You are free and welcome to agree or disagree with him on the issue of freedom.

Luckily I also already addressed this point.
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Skinners beliefs about classical conditioning are science and are not being critiqued in ‘A Case Against Skinner’, his beliefs about autonomy and free will are philosophy and they are the part of Skinner’s work being discussed here. This is made clear in the introduction of the essay.