Logical and Scientific Verbal Behavior: What's Happened to Skinner's "Empirical Epistemology"?
Tim Hackenberg (Reed College)
Tim Hackenberg received his BA in psychology from the University of California, Irvine in 1982 and a doctorate in psychology from Temple University in 1987, under the supervision of Philip Hineline. He held a postdoctoral research position at the University of Minnesota with Travis Thompson from 1988-90. He served on the faculty in the Behavior Analysis Program at the University of Florida from 1990-2009. He is now a professor of psychology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He is a fellow of ABAI and of APA Division 25; has served on the board of directors for the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior; has been associate editor of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; and has served as president of APA Division 25, the experimental representative to the ABAI Executive Council, and as the director of the ABAI Science Board. His major research interests are in behavioral economics and comparative cognition, with a particular emphasis on decision-making and token reinforcement systems. He is blessed with a talented cadre of students and has the good fortune to teach courses he cares about.