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An unfinished work filled with list of terms from C. S. Peirce’s writing along with photocopied pages from a dictionary.
A proposal that the Association for Integrative Studies Annual Conference, 4-7 October 2001, include a panel session in which case studies and applications of Interactive Management would be presented. Proposal was not accepted.
Letter discusses Cowan’s article “Paradoxes of Science as a System,” accompanied by Warfield’s notes relevant to the article and to Warfield’s Peirce studies.
Letter than accompanied Blanco's dissertation.
Drafts that shows Warfield’s progression towards “Artificial Philosophy and the Decline of Technology,” which he presented in Lisbon in 1992 and was published as part of the conference proceedings. See also, “Artificial Philosophy and the Decline of Technology: Transparencies,” which were not included in the published version. This paper is a protest against shallow, hasty technology which produces `invasive systems' loaded with potential disaster. Advocates for a technology based on `deep logic' which utilizes tools…
Letter requesting a copy of Robert W. Burch’s article on Peirce’s Reduction Thesis, with article attached.
A short history of the Center for Interactive Management, recounts it major activities and names of persons connected with its operations during the 7 years of its existence first at University of Virginia and lastly George Mason University from April 1982 until June 1989, when the Center was abolished. See also, “The Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences (IASIS).”
Exploration of Aristotle and Peirce’s views on the value of diagrams used to support Warfield’s idea of an observatorium.
An unfinished paper. Discussion of complexity modeling and its use in describing and diagnosing problematic situations, which can then be used in design and design implementation.
This is the second of two manuals given as handouts for the Simpsons-Dagli-Alberts Systems Science Program Short Course held 11-15 July 2007 in Sheffield, Alabama. See, "Systems Science in a University Setting-Part 1-Work Plan for Short Course" for the other manual. See also, "Systems Science in a University Setting- Emails" and "Systems Science in a University Setting - Notes, with List of Materials.”
A One-page PowerPoint slide.
Warfield suggests some useful work that could be done in a study of Problematiques from Interactive Management Workshops for a doctoral dissertation.
An unfinished document, two versions but both quite incomplete.
Warfield’s response to negative comments from two anonymous readers who reviewed his manuscript “A Structure Based Science of Complexity.”
This is the paper manuscript of Warfield’s acceptance speech for the IEEE-SMC Joseph G. Wohl Award, Taipei, Taiwan October 2006. Warfield was unable to give his remarks in person. Instead he had a speech recorded and sent in his place. To see the speech, go to “The Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society: The Beginnings, DVD of acceptance speech for IEEE-SMC Joseph G. Wohl Award, Taipei, Taiwan October 2006." See notes field for further details on…
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A collection of flow chart drawings created during Interactive Management Workshops. John Warfield has been trying to collect all the problematiques from as many interactive management workshops as he possibly can. He usually pulls out several of them to use as display material when making a talk. He keeps them all together in a single note-binder. Many of them are from the IM Reports of work done under him. Others are from workshops done by…
This is a descriptive list of what had been available and in use at 227 Thompson Hall, where the Demosophia room had been operative at Center for Interactive Management George Mason University during the six year span from 1984 until 1990. This document was a companion piece to "Proposal: Demosophia Type Situation Room Construction at George Mason University."
Architect’s drawings of floor plans for use with Interactive Management sessions being run at Ford. The proposal was not accepted by Ford administration at this time.
This is not really a "Transcript" but rather a full descriptive comment, including a review of the visit to Center for Interactive Management of a millionaire looking for investment opportunities in the field of management consulting. To see the video go to A.I.I.M. Planning Session, February 1989
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