Ethics and Reductionism

Journal of Psychology and Education 1 (3-5):9-38 (1995)
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In this paper Control theory alongside with reductionism purporsive behavior will be discussed. Human puposive action has been explained by the cybernectics long ago. control theory is attemping to do this task too. however, it faces problems of which one can be named as explaining an impossible goal.

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