Cybernetics and the machinery of rationality

British Journal for the History of Science 41 (1):109-114 (2008)
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Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics. New York: Basic Books, 2005. Pp. xv+423. ISBN 0-7382-368-8. $27.50 .Hunter Crowther-Heyck, Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+420. ISBN 0-8018-8025-4. £33.50 .Philip Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+655. ISBN 0-521-77526-4. £28.00 .Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 387. ISBN 0-674-1714-5. £17.95 .S. M. Amadae, Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii+401. ISBN 0-226-10654-4. £13.50, $19.00 .Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science. Tr. M. B. DeBevoise. New French Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+210. ISBN 0-691-02574-6. £24.95 .Roberto Cordeschi, The Discovery of the Artificial: Behavior, Mind, and Machines before and beyond Cybernetics. Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 28. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Pp. xx+312. ISBN 1-4020-0606-3. €104.95 .David Mindell, Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+437. ISBN 0-8018-8057-2. £18.00

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