iapct.org
  • home
  • IAPCT.org
    • News
    • Executive Board
    • IAPCT membership
    • Make a Donation
  • Events
    • 32nd IAPCT Conference and 2022 Annual Meeting
    • 31st IAPCT Conference
      and 2021 Annual Meeting
    • 30th IAPCT Conference and 2020 Annual Meeting
  • Publications
    • Books
    • Papers
    • PCT Websites
    • all PCT materials on this site
  • Themes
    • Introduction to PCT
    • Biology & Neuroscience
    • Sociology & Philosophy
    • Education
    • Economics & Marketing
    • Robotics and AI
    • Psychology & Mental Health
    • Method of Levels
    • Film, Media and Literature
  • Forum
HomePCTBill PowersWhat’s wrong with ‘Behavioral Science’?

What’s wrong with ‘Behavioral Science’?

April 16, 2022 Dag Forssell Bill Powers, Papers, PCT

William T. Powers

Letter to Philip J. Runkel, November 8, 1985

LivingSystemsDownload
  • psychology
  • science

Related Articles

Bill Powers

The Neglected Phenomenon of Negative Feedback Control

April 16, 2022 Dag Forssell Bill Powers, Papers, PCT

Control of perception has been reported at very basic levels of life. […]

Bill Powers

Perceptual Control Theory at 40

April 17, 2022 Dag Forssell Bill Powers, Introduction, Papers, PCT

This intro to PCT is slanted toward those coming into to this subject from the physical sciences. Bill Powers develops an argument that leads from conventional views of behavior to the new view that PCT gives us, emphasizing in the end the odd role that organisms, seen through the eyes of PCT, play in a world otherwise dominated by physical laws. The point will be to show that control theory provides us with the germ of a radically new understanding, a break with all traditional theories of behavior—and many new ones as well […]

Bill Powers

Experience, Reality, and HPCT

April 17, 2022 Dag Forssell Bill Powers, Papers, PCT

A short post to CSGnet on how we think about our senses, our experiences, and how we draw conclusions about the reality we live in (or whether we think we observe reality directly and merely need to report what we observe. […]

Copyright © 2022 iapct.org