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
I have withdrawn my two books on Amazon. Because my more recent Linkedin articles (listed under three titles below) are better	Home page

	A systems thinker’s view of Enterprise Architecture	A systems thinker’s view of the modern world	A systems thinker’s view of systems thinking
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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 Architect roles EA and systems thinking System theories The role of EA wrt systems thinking Service-orientation in EA and BA EA vision and reality EA domain insights Enterprise business architecture Enterprise data architecture Enterprise applications architecture Appendices The vocabulary of systems thinking	Philosophy The nominalist’s viewpoint Description and reality A thinking triad A theory of types Knowledge structures Systems System theories A systems thinking triad Social systems thinking part I On rules, violations and free will Social systems thinking part II Social justice The philosophy of identity politics The concepts of social justice The politics of sexual equality Impacts on society Appendices The vocabulary of systems thinking	Introduction System theories A systems thinking triad The role of EA wrt systems thinking Cybernetics and System Dynamics Ashby’s cybernetics 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 Social systems thinking Social systems thinking part I Rules and violations On rules, violations and free will Social systems thinking 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
	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	Old notes on systems thinkers Forrester’s system dynamics More on dynamics Applying cybernetics to business Ashby’s law of requisite variety Meadows’ generalizations
General	Systems	Philosophy	Systems thinkers
	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	Ackoff’s ideas Ashby’s cybernetics Beer’s ideas Bertalanffy’s ideas Boulding’s ideas Checkland’s ideas Clemson’s ideas 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
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
#		More musings
		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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