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Dialogues Concerning Two Life Sciences
Psychology of Tomorrow—Today

Note: In the very first letter, Phil Runkel refers to Quantitative Analysis of Purposive Systems: Some Spadework at the foundations of Scientific Psychology, published in Psychological Review in 1978. This article is reprinted on pages 129–165 in Living Control Systems, selected papers of William T. Powers.
 

Book covers :

Front cover   Front_cover.pdf
Back cover   Back_cover.pdf
 

Sections of the book in progress:

Front end including Editor's Preface and Excerpts from the letters   Dialogues_front.pdf
Part II Science and scientific revolutions
     (Part II follows 500 pages of letters)
  Dialogues_part_II.pdf
 

Here are the first six letters complete - enjoy!

Letter from Phil Runkel July 23, 1985   6 pages 850723_phil.pdf
Letter from Bill Powers July 29, 1985  9 pages 850729_bill.pdf
Letter from Phil Runkel     August 8, 1985  1 page 850808_phil.pdf
Letter from Phil Runkel August 26, 1985 1 page 850826_phil.pdf
Letter from Phil Runkel September 9, 1985 22 pages 850909_phil.pdf
Letter from Bill Powers September 14, 1985 4 pages 850914_bill.pdf
     

Enclosures are listed and can be downloaded here

     


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