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Podcast: New Books in Psychology
Episode: Bernard Scott, "Cybernetics for the Social Sciences" (Brill, 2021)
Description: On this episode, I have the great pleasure of finally getting to talk with one of the âunsung heroesâ of cybernetics, whose work has finally begun to receive the critical attention it has long deserved, and upon which I have leaned quite heavily in my own work since I entered this field. With Cybernetics for the Social Sciences, out from Brill in 2021, Bernard Scott has met a long-felt need by authoring a book that shows the foundational relevance of cybernetics for such fields as psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Scott provides user-friendly descriptions of the core concepts of cybernetics, with exampl...