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Written while in retirement, this document recounts some of Warfield’s frustrating experiences in his teaching and professional career. In each instance, Warfield believed a better system of administration would have significantly helped.
A lectures series which occurred in the spring of 1999 at George Mason University. There were 22 class meetings from 30 January to 15 May 1999. ALL THESE CLASSES WERE FILMED, SEE DETAILS SECTION FOR COMPLETE LIST. Ten video segments are Planning An Interactive Management Session; Ford's 1st Interactive Management Session; Ford's 1st Interactive Management Session Part 2; Warfield on the Economy; Methodologies to Use in interactive Management; Thought Leaders; Thought Leaders Part 2; Clanthink;…
A note-book that contained the titles of manuscripts Warfield was working, or planned to work on in the future, with notes where and when he might publish them.
Written for a Festschrift issue of a new e-journal Constructivist Foundations edited by Ranulph Glanville and Alexander Riegler. Warfield withdrew the article.
Argues that Spreadthink is responsible for the wide variation among economists and that unless economists, and other disciplines working with high levels of complexity, adapt there is no reason to assume that anything will change.
An element list for a problematique. The elements are listed in the document in the following categories: Human Beings, Language, Reasoning, Thought Leaders, Formalisms, Science Models, Processes and Education. See also, "STRUCTURING DISCURSIVITY: A FIELD REPRESENTATION " which has all the elements arranged within categories.
A short criticism of the current education system in the United States.
A critique of the lowering standards of higher education in the United States.
Warfield included this book review in an email to Cihan Dagli in November 2006. Part of an ongoing correspondence between Warfield and Dagli about Warfield’s consideration of moving to University of Missouri, Rolla’s Systems Department. See notes field for text of communication.
A posting on a list-serve in which Warfield champions the use of his own system and alludes to the coming economic crisis and how it could be resolved.
Written as an imaginary conversation between a modern-day interviewer and Michel Foucault, Warfield discusses Foucault’s study of systems of thought. Provides suggestions for future elaboration of systems thinking.
An unfinished paper consisting of an abstract and two beginning pages of the manuscript that discusses economics theory and how systems structural methods could be integrated into the field of study.
Unfinished three page paper that explores the poor use of the scientific method. Includes examples involving Comte, the Santa Fe School, Fischer on economics, and Forrester’s world model.
Unpublished article with an analysis of twelve prototypical insight management styles and the recommendation that a structural information style is best entry mode for management insight, and can provide needed flexibility for follow up of any of the other eleven styles, if appropriate. See also, “Managing Insight.”
An incomplete paper that argues that individual executives lack exceptional insight into the complexity in the situations for which they exercise oversight. As a result, they do not deserve the exorbitant levels of compensation currently provided. Asserts that insight management is a topic demanding highly-selective group process activity, as opposed to executive command performance. See also, “Insight Management.”
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Email exchanges between Warfield and a student in Iran. Warfield includes a three page bibliography of 14 of his papers and books which he deemed as most helpful to the student.
This material is part of the working papers which preceded a published article titled “ Artificial Philosophy and the Decline of Technology.” Includes a two page paper titled “Linguistic Gradations in Conceptualization,” a one page paper titled “Priors and the Doctrine of Necessity,” a one page paper titled “Introduction,” and finally there are eleven pages with handwritten notations by Warfield.
The entries in this bibliography date from 1972 through 1990, and include books, papers, reports, talks, published and unpublished materials by both Warfield and his colleagues. Also includes a listing of the research reports produced by the Institute's Center for Interactive Management as well as lists of Organizations, Individuals and Publications connected in some way with the work of the Institute. For Part 1, see “Annotated Bibliography: Generic Systems Design & Interactive Management (PART 1).”
A list of itemized corrections of The Mathematics of Structure along with scanned copies of Warfield’s handwritten corrections as they appear in the book.
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