Noam Chomsky's savage review of B. F. Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity, published in The New York Review of Books in 1971, is sometimes credited as the coup de grâce to behaviorism – its widely-read condemnation of that particular strand of psychology (alongside what Chomsky argued were
Happy Friday! What's good? No surprise, this email has a slight shift of focus this morning – the new book project demands it. Typically, on Fridays, I send an email detailing the week's news about the business of health technology. For the next few months (at least)
Paid subscribers to Second Breakfast learned on Monday that I'm toying with writing another book. And surprise surprise, it'll explore artificial intelligence, teaching, and learning – the long history of "intelligent tutoring systems," sure, but more of a series of provocations about philosophy, science, and