This report was a handout to accompany a talk titled "The Science of Generic Design: Foundations and Applications", plenary presentation at the First Annual Meeting of the International Society for Design and Process Science, University of Texas, IC2 Center, Austin, Texas, 9 December 1995. Contents of A PHILOSOPHY OF DESIGN, the report which was handed out: 1.Introduction, giving names of colleagues, sources of ideas, context; 2. How Should Design & Science Coexist?; 3. Interactive Management: Applying Generic Design Science; 4. Analyzing the Behavioral Menu; 5.Analyzing the Work Program of Complexity; 6. Summary. 7.Appendix, Five Case Studies. The 5 case studies are Case 1 (Industry) Pump Manufacturing Problem, Case 2 (Education) Ph. D. Research in Public Policy, Case 3 (Industry) Automotive System Design, Case 4 (Government) Redesigning the U. S. Defense Acquisition System, Case 5 (Government) Mexican State of Guanajuato in the 21st Century. (Four documents in the Appendix are reprints of "Four Case Studies" a student manual used in a July 1995 workshop in Hull, England. The 5th appendix document is a summary of an international conference held in Mexico in March 1994.)

Although it was prepared specifically as a handout at the plenary session, the 93 page report “A Philosophy of Design, 1995” was later printed in quantity and distributed to other colleagues, and possibly at other lectures. Another IASIS report, titled: "Understanding Design Science, 1996" contains photocopies of transparencies used at the plenary session, and is usually distributed as a companion to "A Philosophy of Design.". R.w. ,circa 2007? Maybe r.w. updated 22 October 2014 Atila has asked to edit and adapt this paper into an online teaching module for his ATLAS online publishing venture and Warfield Family Trust has given him written permission to do so. Rose Warfield sent him digitized version to make it easier for him to edit. He wants to dedicate the module to John N. Warfield, also list Warfield as author of his module but we gave him permission to name himself author of the module, depending on his needs as editor of the series as long as he included a very full attribution footnote.