The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory

Part I

Why do we need perceptual control theory?

1. The world according to PCT

2. Understanding purposeful systems: the application

of control theory in engineering and psychology

3. The crisis in neuroscience

4. When causation does not imply correlation: robust

violations of the faithfulness axiom

5. Unraveling the dynamics of dyadic interactions:

perceptual control in animal contests

6. How the brain gets a roaring campfire: Structuring

for Perceptual Results

7. How the brain gets a roaring campfire: input and

output functions

8. The phylogeny, ontogeny, causation and function of

regression periods explained by reorganizations of the

hierarchy of perceptual control systems

9. Social structure and control: perceptual control theory

and the science of sociology

10. Perceptual control in cooperative interaction

11. Language and thought as control of perception

12. Perceptions of control theory in

industrial-organizational psychology: disturbances

and counter-disturbances

13. Method of Levels Therapy

14. Robotics in the real world: the perceptual control

theory approach

15. PCT and beyond: toward a computational framework

for ‘intelligent’ communicative systems

16. Ten vital elements of perceptual control theory,

tracing the pathway from implicit influence to

scientific advance