Pavlov and the Book

[jm]

>Tom Stanton wrote:
>> 
>> Not an expert, but it appears TRP is making liberal use of Pavlov
>> because B.F. Skinner's work on behavioralism doesn't really become
>> current until after WW2.
>
And Craig Clark responded:

>...mebbe Pointsman is meant to be a parody of Skinner? Just how did 
>BF spend the war anyway?
>

As for me, when I encountered "Poinstman" I didn't think of Skinner so much
as I thought of Ewen Cameron and Jose Delgado.  I don't know, rilly, if
these two were/are behaviorists.  TRP could have known something of both of
these men when he was writing GR, however.  Delgado was even something of a
showman back in the 50s and 60s.  But neither one would've been working in
London during WWII as far as I know.
-j minnich