Warren McCulloch’s Turn to Cybernetics
What Walter Pitts Contributed
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11936788 |
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| Authors | Kenneth Aizawa (0000-0002-7143-4901, Centenary College of Louisiana, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 206-217 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-0188 • E-ISSN: 1743-2790 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/0308018812z.00000000017 |
| OpenAlex | W1979626235 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
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
Causality (physics · CLARITY · Cognitive science · Cybernetics · Epistemology · Perception · Problem of universals · Art, Technology, and Culture · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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