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A collection of 12 transparencies designed to accompany Warfield’s figure “Foucault’s Space of Discourse.”
A collection of 12 transparences with Charles S. Peirce quotes. Several, if not all of these, were used during lecture series in Argentina. See, for example, "The Philosophy of Science According to Charles S. Peirce."
The fill title of this document is "Department of Systems Science at the State University of New York at Binghamton," by George J. Klir and Walter Lowen. This is just the first page.
A collection of photographs of systems thinkers from 350 A.D. to the 1900's, starting with Aristotle and ending with Bochensky, Foucault, Ashby, Friedman & Harary.
Warfield’s comments on Geoffrey Vickers, Responsibility—Its Sources and its Limits (Intersystems, 1980) along with a transcript of an interview with Vickers. Click here for the video.
A single transparency with a well-known quote from Heinz von Foerster.
Fifteen short paragraphs with captions, in bulleted list followed by about 10 topics listed with no sentences attached. First topic "The 1950's as Springboard Decade." Last topic "The Federal Education Bureaucracy and its Impact on Higher Education."
Explanation of the math connected with writing part of the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) software that can be used for assigning personnel and budgeting in a manufacturing or other activity. Incudes technical discussion of need for transitivity in design of the software.
Unfinished paper. A discussion of the ways in which Interpretive Structural Modeling can lead to the development of more efficient and higher quality software. Notes that what is convenient for a software designer is often at odds with what is convenient for the user of the software.
Unfinished paper. An imaginary conversation between Vickers, Foucault and Peirce on the topic of system studies as it is practiced in modern universities.
A one-page overview of Charles Sanders Peirce’s career and is used as a preface for a set of transparencies. See, “Peirce Quotes.”
Warfield’s reference list on the definition of the term “systems.”
Scanned copies of figures printed in Mathematics of Structure.
Scanned copies of mementos Warfield saved from a high school reunion attended in June 1992. Includes class picture, 1942 commencement program in which Warfield was top ranking senior, picture of high school building, and list of names of all his classmates.
A list of the five different levels of certification and approximately 26 different tasks or capabilities that should be mastered by the student. Part of an unfinished project. See also, “WPOC Certification & Additional Source Material,” “IM Certification References to Source Material.”