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Super User

Warfield’s comments on Geoffrey Vickers, Responsibility—Its Sources and its Limits (Intersystems, 1980) along with a transcript of an interview with Vickers. Click here for the video.



Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Seven-Period Photo Time Chart

A collection of photographs of systems thinkers from 350 A.D. to the 1900's, starting with Aristotle and ending with Bochensky, Foucault, Ashby, Friedman & Harary.



The fill title of this document is "Department of Systems Science at the State University of New York at Binghamton," by George J. Klir and Walter Lowen. This is just the first page.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Peirce Quotes

A collection of 12 transparences with Charles S. Peirce quotes. Several, if not all of these, were used during lecture series in Argentina. See, for example, "The Philosophy of Science According to Charles S. Peirce."

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Foucault’s Space of Discourse

A collection of 12 transparencies designed to accompany Warfield’s figure “Foucault’s Space of Discourse.”

A list of 31 titles John Warfield considered to be his most important from 1968 to 1991. In includes two books, two bibliographies, and both published and unpublished papers or reports. It is an excerpt from a longer unpublished memo titled “Chronology of Developments Beginning Around 1968.”

Warfield provides a paragraph summary of his eleven “principal discoveries.”

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Writing in Progress

A list of 35 titles Warfield assembled and kept stored in his note-binder titled “New Paper Systems Programs in Universities.”

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Academia and Society: A Zonal Analysis

Contends that Academia and Society each can be represented by two subdomains. Academia is divided into “Embedded” and “Fringe” subdomains while society is divided into a “Science-based Subsystem” and a “Floating Subsystem.” There are four possible intersections of these domains, which are known as Zones. The four Zones are: Familiar, Remnant, Vacuous, and Legacy

A step by step guide going through the construction and use of Options Fields during an Interactive Management Workshop.