Kenneth Craik | |
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| Born | 1914 Edinburgh |
| Died | 8 May 1945 Cambridge, England |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | The Experimental Study of Visual Adaptation (1940) |
| Academic work | |
| Influenced | Warren McCulloch |
Kenneth James William Craik (/kreɪk/; 1914 – 1945) was a Scottish philosopher and psychologist. A pioneer of cybernetics, he hypothesized that a human behaves basically as a servomechanism that controlled at discrete points in time.[1] He influenced Warren McCulloch, who once recounted that Einstein considered The Nature of Explanation a great book.[2]
- ^ Bertelson, Paul (May 1966). "Central Intermittency Twenty Years Later". Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 18 (2): 153–163. doi:10.1080/14640746608400022. ISSN 0033-555X. PMID 5327439.
- ^ McCulloch, Warren S. "Recollections of the many sources of cybernetics." ASC Forum. Vol. 6. No. 2. 1974.