Julian Bigelow's scientific contributions
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Publication (1)
This essay has two goals. The first is to define the behavioristic study of natural events and to classify behavior. The second is to stress the importance of the concept of purpose.
Given any object, relatively abstracted from its surroundings for study, the behavioristic approach consists in the examination of the output of the object and of the...
Citations
... However, despite the impact of this book, Wiener insists that the principles of first-order cybernetics were already established in the article co-authored with Arturo Rosenblueth and Julian Bigelow, "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology" (Wiener 1943), where they establish a scheme of "firstorder," "second-order," etc. behavior prediction. ...
