Steps to an Ecology of Mind

1. Part I: Metalogues
   1. Why do Things Get in a Muddle
   2. Why do Frenchmen?
   3. About Games and Being Serious
   4. How Much Do You Know?
   5. Why Do Things Have Outlines?
   6. Why a Swan?
   7. What is an Instinct?

1. Part II: Form and Pattern in Anthropology
   1. Culture Contact and Schismogenesis
   2. Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Behavior
   3. Morale and National Character
   4. Bali: The Value System of a Steady State
   5. Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art
   6. Comment on Part II

1. Part III: Form and Pathology in Relationship
   1. Social Planning and the Concept of Deutero-Learning
   2. A Theory of Play and Fantasy
   3. Epidemiology of a Schizophrenia
   4. Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia
   5. The Group Dynamics of Schizophrenia
   6. Minimal Requirements for a Theory of Schizophrenia
   7. Double Bind, 1969
   8. The Logical Categories of Learning and Communication
   9. The Cybernetics of "Self": A Theory of Alcoholism
   10. Comment on Part III

1. Part IV: Biology and Evolution
   1. On Empty-Headedness among Biologists and State Boards of Education
   2. The Role of Somatic Change in Evolution
   3. Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian Communication
   4. A Re-examination of "Bateson's Rule"
   5. Comments on Part IV

1. Part V: Epistemology and Ecology
   1. Cybernetic Explanation
   2. Redundancy and Coding
   3. Conscious Purpose versus Nature
   4. Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation
   5. Form, Substance and Difference
   6. Comment on Part V

1. Part VI: Crisis in the Ecology of Mind**
   1. From Versailles to Cybernetics
   2. Pathologies of Epistemology
   3. The Roots of Ecological Crisis
   4. Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization