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Dialogue Concerning the
Two Chief Approaches
to a Science of Life

Word Pictures and Correlations
versus Working Models

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 About Bill Powers      
 About Phil Runkel

 

 

Throughout this volume, Phil and Bill exchange candid assessments of the players, methods and dominant approaches in psychology and the social sciences, and the difficulties that go with advocating an entirely new framework for doing science. You follow Phil Runkel's thinking as he comes to grips with PCT thanks to Bill Powers's patient tutoring, understands it and its significance, and develops his subsequent books: Casting Nets and Testing Specimens, and People as Living Things.

610 pages, 8.25x11 inches, paperback. © 2011 Living Control Systems Publishing, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-9740155-1-2

 

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Press release issued December 30, 2010

  PR_Dialogue.pdf

Letter explaining what Dialogue is all about

  Dialogue_letter.pdf

William T. Powers: Biographical sketch, CV, and Publications

  Powers_vita.pdf

Press release issued March 31, 2011

  PR_OS.pdf
     

Enclosures are listed and can be downloaded here

     


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