The Things We Do
Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin
to Understand the What, How, and Why of Our Behavior
©2000 MIT Press & Gary Cziko
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I. Theories of Behavior: From Psychic and Purposeful to Materialist and Purposeless
2. Philosophical Perspectives on Behavior: From Animism to Materialism
3. Psychological Perspectives on Behavior: From Purposeful to Purposeless
II. Purpose Without Spirit: From Constancy of the Internal Environment to Perceptual Control of the External Environment
4. A Biological Perspective on Purpose: The Physiology of Bernard and Cannon
5. The Engineering of Purpose: From Water Clocks to Cybernetics
6. A Psychological Perspective on Purpose: Organisms as Perceptual Control Systems
III. Behavior and Evolution: Then and Now
7. The Evolution of Animal Behavior: The Impact of the Darwinian Revolution
8. The Evolution of Human Behavior: The Darwinian Revolution Continued
IV. Bernard and Darwin Meet Behavioral Science: Implications and Applications
10. Understanding Adaptive Behavior and Thought as Purposeful Evolution: Combining Bernard and Darwin
11. Behavioral Science and the Cause-Effect Trap
12. Applying the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to Behavioral Theory, Research, and Practice