Abstract
Abstract In the end the greatness of a scientist is measured foremost not in terms of well-designed experiments or the elegant fitting of models, but in the deliverance of a profoundly important message. Egon Brunswik had such a message. Several of the issues he raised in his 1955 Psychological Review article appear noncontroversial in present day cognitive science (although seldom, it seems, because of the direct impact of Brunswik’s writings). For example, models with probabilistic notions, which stress the purposive, “distal-over proximal” nature of cognitive processing, are commonplace in cognitive science. Nonetheless, it seems fair to conclude that the most important part of the story told by Brunswik remains largely unappreciated by mainstream psychology: that the proper object of study for a scientific psychology is the organism-environment system as a whole, where the behavior of the organism is molded by the forces of adaptation and inter twined with the properties of the environment.
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