ABSTRACT

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

chapter 1|10 pages

Overview

chapter 2|2 pages

On the nature of simplicity

chapter 3|5 pages

On looking at the obvious

chapter 4|26 pages

Perception, cognition, and science *

chapter 5|22 pages

Some thinking about ‘system'

chapter 6|19 pages

Why we cannot build ‘thinking machines'

(At least at present)

chapter 7|32 pages

On goals and means

chapter 8|28 pages

Decision-making under uncertainty and problem-solving

A conceptual exploration from a Gestalt theoretical viewpoint *

chapter 9|19 pages

Four types of learning

A phenomenological analysis

chapter 11|8 pages

The social science practitioner and his client

Experience with the military *

chapter 15|22 pages

Whither scientific psychology?