The Things We Do: Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to Understand the What, How, and Why of Our Behavior
The remarkable achievements that modern science has made in physics, chemistry,biology, medicine, and engineering contrast sharply with our limited knowledge of the human mind and behavior. A major reason for this slow progress, claims Gary Cziko, is that with few exceptions,behavioral and cognitive scientists continue to apply a Newtonian-inspired view of animate behavior as an organism's output determined by environmental input. This one-way cause-effect approach ignores the important...
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Cziko shows how the lessons of Bernard and Darwin, updated with the best of current scientific knowledge, can provide solutions to certain long-standing theoretical and practical problems in behavioral science and enable us to develop new methods and topics for research.
Preface1 Introduction and OverviewI Theories of Behavior: From Psychic and Purposeful toMaterialist and Purposeless2 Philosophical Perspectives on Behavior: From Animism toMaterialism3 Psychological Perspectives on Behavior: From Purposeful toPurposelessII Purpose Without Spirit: From Constancy of the InternalEnvironment to Perceptual Control of the External Environment4 A Biological Perspective on Purpose: The Physiology ofBernard and Cannon5 The Engineering of Purpose: From Water Clocks to Cybernetics6 A Psychological Perspective on Purpose: Organisms asPerceptual Control SystemsIII Behavior and Evolution: Then and Now7 The Evolution of Animal Behavior: The Imapct of the DarwinianRevolution8 The Evolution of Human Behavior: The Darwinian RevolutionContinued9 Evolution Within the Body: The Darwinian Lesson ExtendedIV Bernard and Darwin Meet Behavioral Science: Implicationsand Applications10 Understanding Adaptive Behavior and Thought as PurposefulEvolution: Combining Bernard and Darwin11 Behavioral Science and the CauseEffect Trap12 Applying the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to BehavioralTheory, Research, and PracticeNotesReferencesIndex
