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Living Control Systems

This book was originally published in 1989 by the Control Systems Group (CSG). In this volume are fourteen papers by William T. Powers published previously in scholarly journals, periodicals and various proceedings.

Contents

A General Feedback Theory of Human Behavior: Part I

A General Feedback Theory of Human Behavior: Part II

A Feedback Model for Behavior: Application to a Rat Experiment

Feedback: Behond Behaviorism

Applied Epistemology

The Cybernetic Analysis of Purposive Systems:
Some Spadework at the Foundations of Scientific Psychology

A Cybernetic Model for Research in Human Development

Degrees of Freedom in Social Interactions

On Purpose

Control Theory and Cybernetics

The Asymmetry of Control

An Outline of Control Theory

Published Works on Living Control Systems, 1957-1988 (Bibliography).