Super User

Super User

Argues that the development of an effective connection between system science and science has been limited because of language and that a “transdisciplinary language” is necessary. Written as background for a panel presentation titled “Science and Systems Science” at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for General Systems Research, San Francisco, California, 8 January 1980.



Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

The Mathematics of Structure ERRATA

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.



The entries in this bibliography date from 1972 through 1990, and include books, papers, reports, talks, published and unpublished materials by both Warfield and his colleagues.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).”

 

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.



Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

MTU2000, The Video Lectures

This is an album of seven disks combining 9 videotaped lectures and their companion PowerPoint slides. 

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.



Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

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.”



Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Insight Management

Unpublished article with an analysis of twelve prototypical insight management styles and the recommendation that a structural information style is best entry mode for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.”

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Misappropriation of Science

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.



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.