Themes in Speculative Psychology

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> Chapter 1 1 Overview; Chapter 2 2 On the nature of simplicity; Chapter 3 3 On looking at the obvious; Chapter 4 *The extent to which I am indebted to Heider rather than to Brunswik for much of what I have to say here about perception is inestimable. But because both Brunswik and Heider acknowledged and acknowledge their mutual debt to each other, I feel less ill at ease at not attempting to disentangle and identify what I got from whom; Chapter 5 5 Some thinking about ‘system’; Chapter 6 6 Why we cannot build ‘thinking machines’; Chapter 7 7 On goals and means; Chapter 8 8 Decision-making under uncertainty and problem-solving; Chapter 9 9 Four types of learning; Chapter 10 10 Training information-processing decision-making man-machine communication-systems; Chapter 11 11 The social science practitioner and his client; Chapter 12 *First published in the June 1963 issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology; Chapter 13 *First published in the June 1962 issue of Human Factors; Chapter 14 *First published in the December 1961 issue of Management Technology; Chapter 15 15 Whither scientific psychology?;