Aizawa, Kenneth (Author)
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Volume: 37, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 206-217
Edition Details: Lead article in special issue, “Warren S. McCulloch and his Circle”
Language: English
This paper explores part of the making of a cyberneticist. It examines Walter Pitts' contribution to two of McCulloch's most celebrated publications, `A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity' and `How we Know Universals: the Perception of Auditory and Visual Forms'. What we find, in part, is that Pitts provided mathematical clarity and rigor to McCulloch's views on psychons and circular causality.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Article Halpern, Orit (2012) Cybernetic Sense. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (pp. 218-236).
Article Husbands, Phil; Holland, Owen (2012) Warren McCulloch and the British Cyberneticians. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (pp. 237-253).
Article Collins, Alan F. (2012) An Asymmetric Relationship: The Spirit of Kenneth Craik and the Work of Warren McCulloch. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (pp. 254-268).
Article Abraham, Tara H. (2012) “The Materials of Science, the Ideas of Science, and the Poetry of Science”: Warren McCulloch and Jerry Lettvin. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (pp. 269-286).
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