The Death of Jeffrey Stapleton

The Death of Jeffrey Stapleton
Author: Hugh Gibbons
Publisher: Living Control Systems Publ
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2013-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 193809008X

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For anyone who is contemplating the study of law, or wished they had done so, or is in the midst of such an endeavor, this book will provide rewards of insight into how the lawyer thinks through problems in a legal context. The Death of Jeffrey Stapleton is based on, introduces and illustrates a technically sound, testable and easy to demonstrate explanation of how people think and act that lays a foundation for psychology to become a natural science rather than merely an art. The book shows that an understanding the phenomenon of control provides an explanation for the way people behave, what behavior is, how it works, and what it accomplishes. This has profound implications for litigation where psychology is involved.

Perceptual Control Theory

Perceptual Control Theory
Author: William T. Powers
Publisher: Living Control Systems Publ
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2016-05-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1938090128

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These introductions and readings provide a comprehensive range of information for the study of Perceptual Control Theory—papers, books, book reviews, resources on-line, demos and tutorial programs for your computer. Perceptual Control Theory, PCT, results from one man's curiosity, expertise, creativity and determination. The articles, books, and tutorial programs introduced in this volume would not have been written, certainly not this way, if it were not for William T. (Bill) Powers's seminal insight and tireless efforts across more that sixty years. The PCT explanation for what behavior is, how it works and what it accomplishes is well documented. It lays a foundation for a new natural science and can handle behavioral phenomena within a single testable concept of how living systems work. You can demonstrate it yourself with functioning computer simulations. Whether you are interested in improving education, resolving chronic psychological stress, understanding what is going on with an inconsolable baby, understanding the basis for our universal sense of justice, getting a different take on what emotions are, resolving conflict in general, becoming a better parent, manager, sales person, friend or lover, you will find fascinating insight when you review these readings and study this new explanatory concept with care.

Professionalization, Partnership, and Power

Professionalization, Partnership, and Power
Author: Hugh G. Petrie
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1995-08-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1438416032

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The concept of professional development schools (PDS) has recently emerged as one of the most exciting possibilities for systematic educational reform. These "teaching hospitals" of the education profession typically are real schools in a district that take on, with a cooperating institution of higher education, special responsibilities for inquiry and professional preparation. Although still in their infancy, PDSs as places for professional preparation and of inquiry into teaching learning and teacher education have major policy potential.

Ways of Learning and Knowing

Ways of Learning and Knowing
Author: Hugh G. Petrie
Publisher: Living Control Systems Publ
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2012-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1938090063

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Hugh Petrie, the author of the chapters in this anthology, spent his entire professional life as a philosopher, philosopher of education, and educational administrator fascinated by the questions of how we learn and how we know what we learn. The chapters in this anthology are selected from the articles and book chapters he published during his career. They include critiques of behaviorism and its supposed relevance to educational practice, analyses of the issues involved with interdisciplinary education, the nature of conceptual change, the role of metaphor as an essential component in learning anything radically new, a thorough-going examination of current educational testing dogma, and several discussions of the importance of ways of knowing for various educational policy issues. The works are informed throughout by the insights of evolutionary epistemology and Perceptual Control Theory. These two under-appreciated approaches show how an adaptation of thought and action to the demands of the natural and social world explain how learning and coming to know are possible. These insights are as relevant today as they were when the chapters were first written.

Scientific Models of Legal Reasoning

Scientific Models of Legal Reasoning
Author: Scott Brewer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136524835

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First published in 1998. This five-volume series contains some of this century's most influential or thought provoking articles on the subject of legal argument that have appeared in Anglo-American philosophy journals and law reviews. This volume offers a collection of essays by philosophers and legal scholars on economics, artificial intelligence and the physical sciences.

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Approaches to a Science of Life

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Approaches to a Science of Life
Author: William T. Powers
Publisher: Living Control Systems Publ
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2010
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0974015512

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Correspondence between William T. Powers, originator of Perceptual Control Theory, PCT, and Philip J. Runkel, professor of psychology and education at the University of Oregon. 500 pages of original letters show how Phil Runkel reevaluated everything he knew about psychology. This focused correspondence deals with the science (or lack thereof) and (inappropriate) methods used in psychology while introducing a new approach to a new natural science of psychology. Enclosures that go with the letters are available on the web.

Management and Leadership

Management and Leadership
Author: Dag Forssell
Publisher: Living Control Systems Publ
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2008-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0974015555

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Forssell introduces a new understanding of purposeful behavior--Perceptual Control Theory--and shows how to apply it to a wide range of leadership problems.

Without Miracles

Without Miracles
Author: Gary Cziko
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1997
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780262531474

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Without Miracles describes many remarkable examples of the fit of various structures, behaviors, and products of living organisms to their environments in a broad synthesis of humankind's attempt to understand the emergence of complex, adapted entities.