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List of Manuscript Ideas
Manuscript titles are grouped under about 7 topical headings and outlines/notes on one or more article.
List of condensed Patterns for Complexity Studies-II
Same list as in list -I but different subset of data. This is just an extra memo to support writing the paper which would be completed later. See also, “List of condensed Patterns for Complexity Studies-I.”
Linguistic Adjustments: Precursors to Understanding Complexity
Proposes a start on building what laymen would call a “technical vocabulary” for the field of systems science. Notes that an agreed upon, useful language of systems science does not exist. Proceeds to propose a set of linguistic adjustments as a way of moving from the present state of the language toward a sorely-needed, functional state of discursivity.
To view the full copyrighted abstract written in Warfield's own words please use https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sres.601.
Limits on Group Behavior: Email
The second in a series of email postings on education. Contends that, because individuals can't cope with complexity, groups of individuals may be organized to help with a problem. But that doesn't guarantee a solution, it is just a helpful step toward one.
The Limits of Individual Mental Capacity
The first in a series of email postings on education. Review of work done studying “the span of immediate recall” that show that individual human beings lack the mental capacity to recall more than a small number of concepts at any one time. This limited capacity severely restricts the individual’s ability to construct mental models of more than a small degree of complexity.
Letter to Kingsley Haynes regarding Warfield short courses, dated 13 June 1994
Written shortly after he attended the June short course taught by Warfield & Roxana Cardenas, this letter is a suggestion from Mr. R. Bruce Borthwick, that the Warfield courses become integrated into the Public Policy curriculum as mandatory requirement for doctoral degrees.
Letter to a Scholar
A newspaper article that contains photograph and a short biography of Warfield.
Philosophy 3: The Legacy of Charles Sanders Peirce
Hard copies of course materials and individual handouts to accompany “Complexity Lecture No. 9.” Part of a series of 12 lectures on complexity given at the Johnson Center, George Mason University. First of three lectures on the topic of Philosophy. The full title of this lecture is "The Legacy of Charles Sanders Peirce and the Experience of the Peirce Biographer (Joseph Brent, Historian, Ph. D.)." A VHS video is available under “Philosophy 3: The Legacy of Charles Sanders Peirce.”
George Mason University Johnson Center Lecture Series on Complexity, Lecture Group 3
This is Number 3 of a 3-volume set of IASIS Reports on a series of lectures given by John Warfield during the 1998 Fall Semester at George Mason University. The lectures dealt with the four topics which Warfield believed to be relevant to the subject of Complexity: Philosophy, Science, Applications, and Higher Education. Contains materials such as copies of transparencies and other printed information prepared as handouts for the lecture audience. See notes field for a list of the presentations in this group. See also,“Lecture Group 1” and “Lecture Group 2”
George Mason University Johnson Center Lecture Series on Complexity, Lecture Group 2
This is Number 2 of a 3-volume set of IASIS Reports on a series of lectures given by John Warfield during the 1998 Fall Semester. The lectures dealt with the four topics which Warfield believed to be relevant to the subject of Complexity: Philosophy, Science, Applications, and Higher Education. Contains materials such as copies of transparencies and other printed information prepared as handouts for the lecture audience. See notes field for a list of the presentations in this group. See also, “Lecture Group 1” and “Lecture Group 3.”