Demands OF COMPLEXITY on Systems Science: Presentation Components

Transparencies used for talk given at plenary session of United Kingdom Systems Science conference on 14 July 1995. Summary of why Warfield believes the newly developing discipline known as "Systems Science" can be brought to a fruitful, useful maturity. Displays a matrix showing the interrelations of the "17 Laws of Complexity." Reviews the distinction between "ordinary" and "complex" situations and asserts that an adequate Systems Science is not being used in modern higher education. Graduating students are, therefore, not equipped to deal with huge complexities. His lecture notes can be found under “Demands of Complexity on Systems Science (Talk Outline).”

This is a 48 page manual full of the transparencies prepared for "Demands of Complexity on Systems Science” a plenary session talk which Warfield presented on July14th, at the United Kingdom Systems Society conference. The manual includes some which he did not have time to display at the actual plenary session lecture. His planned lecture notes are in another file under title "Demands of Complexity on Systems Science(Talk Outline) " [Database record 10173]. The printed manual is a Report divided into seven sections, each section has a big boldly printed divider page. The sections are: A. REPRESENTATIONAL ISSUES, B. SITUATIONAL ISSUES, C. DOMAIN OF SCIENCE MODEL, UNIVERSAL PRIORS TO SCIENCE, D. COMPLEXITY, E. RELEVANCY ISSUES, F. DEMANDS OF COMPLEXITY, G. FOUCAULT'S APPROACH TO CHANGE. What follows is a complete list of all the titles of the transparencies printed under the above subdivisions. The overall caption on the manual title page is : DEMANDS OF COMPLEXITY ON SYSTEMS SCIENCE, GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF THIS PRESENTATION.************************************************************ A. REPRESENTATIONAL ISSUES 1. Pope's System View, 2. Human Knowledge, 3. Fundamental Model Types, 4. Formal Model Types, 5. Formal Structural Model Types, 6. Formal, Linear Structural Models, 7. Mathematical Spaces, 8. Types of Mathematical Spaces, 9. Mathematical Root Space, 10. Mathematical Intermediate Space, 11. Graphical Summary. *********************************************** B. SITUATIONAL ISSUES 12. Metaphors and Categories--William James, 13. Situation, 14. Universe, 15. System. ********************************************** C: DOMAIN OF SCIENCE MODEL, UNIVERSAL PRIORS TO SCIENCE 16. Suppositions and Presuppositions, 17. Science, 18. Domain of Science Model and Universal Priors to Science, 19. Systems Science. ******************************** D. COMPLEXITY 20. Thought--C. S. Peirce, 21. The Value of Formal Logic--C. S. Peirce, 22. Demands on Logic--C. S. Peirce, 24. Complexity, 25. The Work Program of Complexity. *************************************************** E. RELEVANCY ISSUES 26. Relevance of Systems Science—1, 27. Relevance of Higher Education, 28. Relevance of Systems Science—2, 29. Von Foerster's First Law, 30. Relevance of Root Spaces, 31. Relevance of Structural Modeling, 32. Relevance of Feedback from Applications. **************************************************** F. Demands of Complexity, 33. Synthesis and Analysis--Two Aspects of Design-- Whitehead, 34. Demands on Higher Education, 35. Heavy Demands on Group Process, 36. Demands on Systems Science, **************************************** G. Foucalt's Approach to Change, 37-38. Suspending and Reexamining, 39-41. Start and Redirection "Hierarchy of Model Types - an intellidraw file.


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  • Category: Complexity, Education, Systems Science, Thought Leaders
  • Size: 30 min approx
  • Description: Photos on PowerPoint slides
  • Publication Year: 1996
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