Systems Research for Behavioral Science: A Sourcebook
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- foreword -- General Introduction -- PART I General Systems Research : Overview -- 1 General Systems Theory-The Skeleton of Science -- 2 General System Theory-a Critical Review -- 3 Cybernetics in History -- PART II Parts, Wholes, and Levels of Integration -- 4 Parts and Wholes in Physics -- 5 The problem of Systemic Organization in Theoretical Biology -- 6 Units and Concepts of Biology -- 7 Levels of Integration in Biological and Social Systems -- PART III Systems, Organization, and the Logic of Relations -- 8 Thoughts on Organization Theory -- 9 Certain Peculiarities of Organisms as a "System" from the Point of View of Physics, Cybernetics, and Biology -- 10 Definition of System -- 11 A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity -- 12 The General and Logical Theory of Automata -- 13 Principles of the Self-Organizing System -- PART IV Information, Communication, and Meaning -- 14 What is Information Measurement? -- 15 Variety, Constraint, and the Law of Requisite Variety -- 16 The Promise and Pitfalls of Information Theory -- 1717 Order, Disorder, and Entropy -- 18 Life, Thermodynamics, and Cybernetics -- 19 Communication, Entropy, and Life -- 20 Thermodynamics and Information Theory -- 21 The Entropy Concept and Psychic Function -- 22 From Stimulus to Symbol: The Economy of Biological Computation -- 23 The Application of Information Theory in Behavioral Studies -- 24 A Behavioristic Analysis of Perception and Language as Cognitive Phenomena -- 25 The Informational Analysis of Questions and Commands -- 26 Towards a Behavioral Theory of Communication -- PART V Cybernetics:Purpose, Self-Regulation, and Self-Direction -- 27 Behavior, Purpose, and Teleology -- 28 Comments on a Mechanistic Conception of Purposefulness