Systems Thinkers

By: Magnus Ramage, Karen Shipp

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Paperback | 18 September 2009 | Edition Number 2009

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Systems Thinkers presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses each thinker's key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas. This discussion is supported by an extract from the thinker's own writing, to give a flavour of their work and to give readers a sense of which thinkers are most relevant to their own interests.

Systems thinking is necessarily interdisciplinary, so that the thinkers selected come from a wide range of areas - biology, management, physiology, anthropology, chemistry, public policy, sociology and environmental studies among others. A significant aim of the book is to broaden and deepen the reader's interest in systems writers, providing an appetising 'taster' for each of the 30 thinkers, so that the reader is encouraged to go on to study the published works of the thinkers themselves.

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From the reviews: "Ramage and Shipp wrote this book as a textbook for a course in the UK's Open University. ... This work examines 30 major figures from all disciplines. The authors describe each figure in terms of how their work fits the 'systems thinking' pattern ... . This book is suitable for its stated purpose as a resource tool for a course in a specialized academic discipline. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and faculty." (C. G. Wood, Choice, Vol. 47 (9), May, 2010)

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Introduction	p. 1
Early Cybernetics
Gregory Bateson	p. 11
Reading from G. Bateson's work	p. 14
Norbert Wiener	p. 19
Reading from Wiener's work	p. 23
Warren McCulloch	p. 27
Reading from McCulloch's work	p. 31
Margaret Mead	p. 35
Reading from Mead's work	p. 39
W. Ross Ashby	p. 45
Reading from Ashby's work	p. 49
General Systems Theory
Ludwig von Bertalanffy	p. 57
Reading from Bertalanffy's work	p. 61
Kenneth Boulding	p. 67
Reading from Boulding's work	p. 71
Geoffrey Vickers	p. 77
Reading from Vickers' work	p. 81
Howard Odum	p. 87
Reading from Odum's work	p. 91
System Dynamics
Jay Forrester	p. 99
Reading from Forrester's work	p. 104
Donella Meadows	p. 109
Reading from Meadows' work	p. 113
Peter Senge	p. 119
Reading from Senge's Work	p. 124
Soft and Critical Systems
C. West Churchman	p. 131
Reading from Churchman's work	p. 135
Russell Ackoff	p. 139
Reading from Ackoff's work	p. 143
Peter Checkland	p. 149
Reading from Checkland's work	p. 154
Werner Ulrich	p. 159
Reading from Ulrich	p. 163
Michael Jackson	p. 169
Reading from Jackson's work	p. 173
Later Cybernetics
Heinz von Foerster	p. 179
Reading from von Foerster's work	p. 183
Stafford Beer	p. 189
Reading from Beer's work	p. 193
Humberto Maturana	p. 199
Reading from Maturana's work	p. 203
Niklas Luhmann	p. 209
Reading from Luhman's work	p. 213
Paul Watzlawick	p. 217
Reading from Luhmann's work	p. 221
Complexity Theory
Ilya Prigogine	p. 229
Reading from Prigogine's work	p. 233
Stuart Kauffman	p. 239
Reading from Kauffman's work	p. 243
James Lovelock	p. 249
Reading from Lovelock's work	p. 253
Learning Systems
Kurt Lewin	p. 259
Reading from Lewin's work	p. 264
Eric Trist	p. 269
Reading from Trist's work	p. 274
Chris Argyris	p. 279
Reading from Argyris's work	p. 283
Donald Schön	p. 289
Reading from Schön's work	p. 293
Marry Catherine Bateson	p. 299
Reading from M.C. Bateson's work	p. 303
Afterword	p. 307
Index	p. 311
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