A short preface that should be attached to “Designs for the Future of Environmental Education, Vol. 2.”

Demonstrates the problems associated when working with, or trying to understand, categories. Provides an analysis of complexity as an area of three distinct "domains" all of which are understandable and approachable by use of Warfield's methodology. In the process Warfield develops his own strict nomenclature to define categories, sub-categories, fields and subject areas pertaining to his research on Complexity and Systems. The three domains are identified as: 1 - The Basic Relationship Fields Domain 2 - The Basic Element Fields and Areas Domain 3 - The Program Domain.

These are PowerPoint slides prepared for a videotaped lecture filmed 16 June 2000. A video of this lecture is available. This is the seventh in a series of 14 lectures called “Managing the Unmanageable.”

Paper printouts of a set  27 PowerPoint slides. Digitized as PDF for download. These slides were created for use with a lecture titled Thought Leaders on Behavioral Pathologies (Managing the Unmanageable Lectures Number 3, filmed June 2000).  A video of this lecture is available. This is the third in a series of 14 lectures called “Managing the Unmanageable 2000.” See  also MTU2000, The Video Lectures.

A slideshow including photographs of persons defined by Warfield as thought leaders in human behavior, human Language, and Human "second-order thought" meaning thought about thought. Also includes slides covering the importance and methodologies to be used for quality control in structural modeling of ideas.

Transparencies and other material to accompany “Complexity Lecture No. 1.” Dr. John N. Warfield discusses the state of higher education and a series of “Thought Leaders” who significantly influenced his thinking. Part of a series of 12 lectures on complexity given at the Johnson Center, George Mason University. First of three lectures on topic of Philosophy. Unlike others, this lecture was not filmed.

A collection of short intellectual biographies completed between 1995 and 1998. Those studied are: Peirce, Lasswell, Perry, Vickers, Foucalt, Harary, DeMorgan, Bochenski, Ashby, Boulding, Gibbs, Hilbert, and Hayek. At the end of the paper is the large complex table titled "Contributions of the Colleagues of Inheritance" featuring nineteen names of persons whose work contributed to an understanding of complexity.

Provides brief bio and discussion of work of twelve famous scholars. They are: Peirce, Lasswell, Perry, Vickers, Foucalt, Harary, DeMorgan, Bochenski, Ashby, Boulding, Gibbs, and Hilbert. The section on Peirce is quite long, while short paragraphs are used for other names.

Warfield gives brief description of his Domain of Science model, and argues that, if people are not thinking in sets, they make prototypical mistakes that propagate throughout society.

Comments and suggestions on how to deal with the problem that “overall growth and utility of knowledge is reaching a point of diminishing returns because of the disorganized state of knowledge.” Discusses key concepts that are either overlooked or used in an underconceptualized way but are critical to the development and application of Systems Science.