The Things We Do: Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to Understand the What, How, and Why of Our Behavior » (First Edition)

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.

Preface
1 Introduction and Overview
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 Imapct of the Darwinian
Revolution
8 The Evolution of Human Behavior: The Darwinian Revolution
Continued
9 Evolution Within the Body: The Darwinian Lesson Extended
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 CauseEffect Trap
12 Applying the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to Behavioral
Theory, Research, and Practice
Notes
References
Index