Steelmanning Tolman

[thompnickson2]

Hi, Frank and all,

 

I have been trying to get a handle on Tolman’s understanding of invervening vriablels.  (For the non psychologists among you, Edward Chase Tolman was a very influential psychologfist known for his purposive behaviorism.  The Hall in which Frank and I studied at Berkeley was named after bim  I am trying to understand the sense in which such variables “intervene.”  The diagram below offers one possibility.  I am writing you today because I hope the hunters among you will straighten me out on how to go about firing a gun at a rabbit.  By “find rabbit” I meant “orient toward rabbit”.  I guess I know that stumbling around in the forest with a cocked shot gun looking for a rabbit is not good hunting technique.   

 

 

 

Nick Thompson

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https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

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