Four Funerals and a Wedding or How the Grinches Stole Science: Presentation

A set of 23 transparencies used for a lecture presented 1 September 1999 at a Colloquium for TIPP (The Institute of Public Policy), George Mason University. Although it has the same title as “Four Funerals and a Wedding or How the Grinches Stole Science,” it contains new information. Warfield discusses his desire to symbolically bury four concepts: Management Science, Computer Science, Systems Science, and Problem-Solving. At the same time, he announces the "engagement" of Reasoning with Rhetoric. For a list of the transparencies see notes section.



This is a set of 23 transparencies which John prepared in August, 1999, for use with a lecture before a TIPP Colloquium at George Mason University on 1 Sept 1999. For the Colloquium, he used the same title which he had used two years earlier in a short unpublished manuscript. Although the titles are the same, this report and the earlier manuscript are not alike, since the lecture contained new materials which had been developed in the two-year time span after the manuscript was written. Warfield did not write a second manuscript just for the 1999 lecture, but talked extemporaneously for about an hour, using the 23 transparencies. Here is a list of the transparencies in the Report: Part 1: Details of the Ceremonies and the Grinch Emergency- The Grinch Has Been Stealing… cel253; Some Favorite Methods of the Grinch cel257; Here Lies Decision Science, RIP cel255; Here Lies Management Science, RIP cel261; Here Lies Computer Science, RIP cel252; Here Lies Systems Science, RIP cel254; See the Happy Couple, Rhetoric and Reason cel256; Some Enemies of the Grinch cel259; The Augean Stables cel258; A few of the King's oxen cel260. Part 2: Spreadthink at Work Individual Voting Patterns on Relative Importance of Problems (Ford Data) caw024; Distribution of Votes Across Problems (Ford Data) cel203; Explaining the "Japanese Miracle"-1 (Litzelman Data, Number of Mentions of Explanatory Factors) cel237; Explaining the "Japanese Miracle"-2 (Litzelman Data, Number of Authors who Cited the Number of Factors Shown) cel238. Part 3: Beliefs about Killer Assumptions (Perino Data): Seven Major Discrepancies Between Manager/Faculty Beliefs cel246; Assumptions that NO Faculty Believe cel241; Three Assumptions with Major Manager/Faculty Discrepancies cel242; Assumptions About Infrastructure Needed to Resolve Complexity cel243; Assumptions With Low Percentages, but Near Manager/Faculty Agreement cel244; Assumptions with Strong Manager/Faculty Support cel245.




Additional Info

  • Category: Philosophy, Systems Science, Teaching Materials
  • Size: 190 p
  • Description: Report and proceedings paper
  • Publication Year: 2000
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