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MIND READINGS
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF PURPOSE
Richard S. Marken
x + 212 pp.
ISBN 0-9624154-3-X
$18.00
"This book can show a willing psychologist how to do a new kind of research.
The theme that runs through all these papers is modeling, the ultimate way of
finding out what a theory really means. Richard Marken is a skilled modeler,
as will be seen. But he has a talent that goes beyond putting ideas into the
form of working simulations, a talent that can be admired but is hard to
imitate. He finds the essence of a problem and an elegantly simple way to cast
it in the form of a demonstration or an experiment."
- from the Foreword by William T. Powers
Most of the twelve papers in this volume describe experimental tests and
demonstrations of PERCEPTUAL CONTROL THEORY, "a comprehensive, scientifically
rigorous, and humanistically satisfying approach to understanding the behavior
of organisms." Beginning with a formal description of behavior as a process of
control, Marken shows how to detect intentional behavior, demonstrates that
control is not a lineal cause-effect sequence, critiques the notion of
environmental control of behavior, builds models of hierarchical control
systems, and concludes by suggesting possible applications of perceptual
control theory in human factors engineering.
Still available:
LIVING CONTROL SYSTEMS
SELECTED PAPERS OF WILLIAM T. POWERS
1989
xx + 300 pp.
ISBN 0-9624154-0-5
$16.50
LIVING CONTROL SYSTEMS II
SELECTED PAPERS OF WILLIAM T. POWERS
1992
xviii + 277 pp.
ISBN 0-9624154-2-1
$22.00
INTRODUCTION TO MODERN PSYCHOLOGY: THE CONTROL-THEORY VIEW
Edited by Richard J. Robertson and William T. Powers
1990
x + 238 pp.
ISBN 0-9624154-1-3
$25.00
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