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Tuesday, July 26 • 3:30pm - 4:00pm
Dynamics as Demarcation

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2762 Like science, systems faces a demarcation problem. How might one specify what counts or doesn’t count as systemic thinking and practice? In this exploratory talk, I will review distinctions that others have drawn, and then describe a framework for understanding dynamics as a basis of distinction. This dynamics-as-demarcation approach has several advantages, including: illuminating various ways that systems thinking and practice have been described, historically and currently, and affording a “sweeping in” from across relevant academic fields of study and practice. A particular advantage of a dynamics-as-demarcation approach is the way in which it can be used to inform understandings of purposeful social change.
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David Rousseau

Founder & Managing Director, Centre for Systems Philosophy
SIG Chair: Research Towards a General Theory of SystemsSIG Chair: Systems Philosophy Dr. David Rousseau is the Founder and Managing Director of the Centre for Systems Philosophy, which promotes the use of Systems Philosophy as a methodology for addressing problems that require both... Read More →

Tuesday July 26, 2016 3:30pm - 4:00pm MDT
ECCR 200
  #ISSS2016 USA, Day 4, Systems Theory-Management-and-Practice, Plenary VIII, Prospects for Scientific Systemic Synthesis, SIG Systems Philosophy |   Paper Presentation, Day 4, Systems Theory-Management-and-Practice, Plenary VIII, Prospects for Scientific Systemic Synthesis, SIG Systems Philosophy