Sense and nonsense in systems thinking https://bit.ly/2yXGImr	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.” More comments	Descriptions <create and use> <represent> Describers <observe & envisage> Phenomena
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	A Systems Thinker’s view of Enterprise Architecture	A Systems Thinker’s view of Sociology and Philosophy	A Systems Thinker’s view of Systems Thinking
Articles	EA history EA method history On Zachman’s framework On what TOGAF is and is not On the ISO 42010 standard EA today Positioning EA today An architecture value stream Architect roles EA and systems thinking Describing things and systems System theories System theories and EA Service-orientation in EA and BA EA vision and reality EA domain insights Enterprise business architecture Enterprise data architecture	Systems thinking Describing things and systems System theories Feedback Ashby’s ideas Beer’s ideas Social systems thinking Eight systems thinking principles Applying system theory to social entities Social systems thinking part I Rules and violations part I Social systems thinking part II Socio-cultural thinking Social philosophy The concepts of social justice The politics of sexual equality Impacts on society Philosophical thinking A conceptualist viewpoint Description and reality part I A thinking triad A theory of types Knowledge structures	Introduction Describing things and systems System theories Feedback Feedback and causality Ashby’s ideas Ashby’s ideas Beer’s ideas Beer’s ideas A systems thinking triad Other systems thinkers Forrester’s ideas Meadows’ ideas Ackoff’s ideas Social systems thinking Eight systems thinking principles Applying system theory to social entities Social systems thinking part I Rules and violations part I Social systems thinking part II Rules and violations part II More things to know On “complex adaptive systems” More things to know about systems What is not a system? Causal analysis Probability analysis Appendices The vocabulary of systems thinking
	Research and notes made while stumbling to the above
	TOGAF as applied system theory Premises of EA and TOGAF EA and philosophy Quality assurance systems (a rant)	Old notes for philosophy for mathematicians More things to know about systems What is not a system? Disambiguating terms	Systems thinkers Ackoff’s ideas Ashby’s cybernetics Ashby’s law of requisite variety Beer’s ideas Bertalanffy’s ideas
General	Systems	Philosophy	continued…
	Thinkers before systems thinking Systems in general Social systems thinking – intro Critical system thinking etc Systems thinking vocabulary Systems science or poetry? The physics of systems System coupling varieties	The problem of universals System philosophy Types and tokens Knowledge and truth A critique of realism Existence in space and time Relativity v quantum mechanics Ontology and phenomenology Logical positivism (Wittgenstein) About life Relevance of the above to EA	Boulding’s ideas Checkland’s ideas Clemson’s ideas Forrester’s ideas Meadows’ generalizations Von Foerster’s ideas Maturana’s ideas Luhmann’s ideas Snowden’s ideas
System change		Description	System change
	Goal-directedness Hierarchical (v network) organisation Chaos and non-linear behaviour Predictability and probability Agility	Description and reality The 9 propositions idealism Insights from the idealism triangle System theory as idealism Philosophical position statement Insights from description theory The psychology of description The philosophy of description Principles for a vocabulary Data and reality – after Bill Kent	System change varieties System stability and change
More ideas	On complexity science	General, information and description	Cybernetic ideas
	Complexity science Complexity measuremente Complex adaptive systems Complexity explained? – part 1 Complexity explained? – part 2	On description On types and fuzziness On information On information & communication Information feedback loops Other information theories Mental models and how brains work The evolution of description The evolution of description The evolution of types and logic The magic number seven Research for description theory	Cybernetics intro Second order cybernetics Self-organising systems Third generation cybernetics More on dynamics Applying cybernetics to business
General ideas		Types	More sociological thinking
	Entities and identities Homeostasis and control Hierarchies and lattices. Idealisation in system theory “the real machine” the eternal golden braid Abstraction varieties and typology	A type theory The evolution of types Types in different disciplines How things instantiate types Types and instances Types and meta types Taxonomies and ontologies Types and instances – analysis Set and type theory Systems as complex types	Bausch’s overview More sociological perspectives Ackoff’s system classes Marx and Engels’ ideas System types People types
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		The practical terminology challenge Enterprise state data Modelling madness. Functionality and Logicality Granularity and Modularity Composition and Generalisation Systems as abstractions UML types and instances Modelling the passage of time	Introducing system ideas Holism and emergent properties Encapsulation The primacy of behavior Determinism and hysteresis The elements of systems Primacy of views Terms and concepts in system Anatomy of the reference model Formalising system description
Other		References	The schism
		References More references Types and sets references Laszlo and Krippner references	The schism in systems thinking EA, GST and social system Social entities v. social systems Actors, roles and assignments System thinkers dictionary - draft System thinking ontology – draft

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