Sense
and nonsense in systems thinking |
Pragmatic
Empirical Epistemology |
“Exceptionally
useful” “Makes EA more powerful, coherent and usable.” “The most important
work on EA and applied System Theory today.” “Way beyond
any other EA/system engineering/human factors/systems theory resource.” |
Descriptions <create and use> <represent> Describers <observe & envisage>
Phenomena |
And Articles |
On systems thinking I have withdrawn my books on Amazon Because my more recent Linkedin
articles are better. |
On how we know what we know For anybody interested in the philosophy of science that underpins the description
of systems. |
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Copy this link to find my articles in Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamberrisford/recent-activity/articles/ Then look for the articles below ·
Systems, rules and self-organization ·
On classifying things to describe them ·
How EA departs from Ashby's ideas ·
How Beer interpreted Ashby's ideas ·
How Forrester extended Ashby's ideas ·
How Ackoff departed from Ashby's ideas ·
How Meadows re-interpreted Forrester's ideas ·
On rules, violations and free will ·
On "complex adaptive systems" ·
The vocabulary of systems thinking ·
More things to know about systems ·
On enterprise business architecture ·
On enterprise data architecture |
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On classifying things to describe them ·
On knowledge as a biological phenomenon ·
More on the philosophy of systems thinking Some old research notes on systems thinking
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Applying cybernetics to
business ·
Ashby’s law of requisite variety Much older research notes on description
and reality ·
for philosophy – the problem of
universals ·
for mathematicians – where did numbers come
from? |
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Research
and notes made while stumbling to the above. |
Research
and notes made while stumbling to the above. |
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General |
Systems |
Systems
thinkers |
General |
Information and description |
Research
for evolution |
Thinkers before systems
thinking |
Mental
models and how brains work The evolution of types
and logic |
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System change |
System change |
Cybernetic
ideas |
Description |
Research
for description theory |
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More ideas |
On
complexity science |
More
sociological thinking |
Types |
Research
for type theory |
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General system ideas |
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Philosophy |
Research
for philosophy |
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Hierarchical (v network)
organisation Chaos and
non-linear behaviour |
Relativity
v quantum mechanics |
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Enterprise architecture |
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TOGAF as applied system theory Quality
assurance systems (a rant) |
Entities and identities Homeostasis and control Hierarchies
and lattices. |
Idealisation
in system theory “the real machine” the
eternal golden braid Abstraction
varieties and typology |
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The schism |
More musings |
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The
schism in systems thinking |
The
practical terminology challenge Enterprise
state data Modelling madness. |
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ISO
42010 in a nutshell What
ISO 42010 means ISO
change proposal |
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Terminology |
References |
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System thinkers dictionary - draft System thinking ontology – draft |
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