From the beginning PRC has been an experiment. Not just an educational experiment, but an experiment in  Explanation . The fact is, even the best of explanations is still only an explanation, inadequately and incompletely instrumental, but never perfect and final. How could it be? The hope for PRC was that my proposals along these lines might have some suggestive value for the social institutions that I worked with, as well as offering ways of thinking about social managemen

Note : This Q & A is my response to Peckham's summary of his luminous Explanation and Power : The Control of Human Behavior . Since questions are the foundation of PRC a Q & A seemed to me to be the most appropriate way of representing that response. The source of this Q & A are questions that I have asked myself about Peckham's work in general and Explanation and Power in particular over the years, as well as questions that partners, students, friends, etc. have asked me,