Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from July 2005

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from July 2005

Geoffrey Vickers 2004: contemporary applications and changing appreciative settings.(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... THE CONTEXT This special edition arises from an event held at the Open University (UK) (often referred to as OU UK) on Friday, 14 May 2004. On that day the archive of Sir Geoffrey Vickers, pre-eminent lawyer, writer, public servant and...

Webs of significance: the work of Geoffrey Vickers.(Research Paper)
July 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Geoffrey Vickers wrote what he called 'occasional poems' both in the 1920s and again, after a gap, from the mid-1950s. He later rejected the earlier poems since he described them as being 'written by a self with whom I could...

Geoffrey Vickers: philosopher of responsibility.(Research Paper)
July 1, 2005... Geoffrey Vickers never, so far as I know, wrote of himself as a philosopher; nor, I would guess, did he aspire to become one. Nonetheless, in this paper I would like to suggest that his intellectual achievement is of such a nature and extent...

Integrative research as appreciative system.(Research Paper)
July 1, 2005... "Later academic history shows how tempting it is to accept the convictions of great scholars, enabling new 'schoolmen' and new scholastic thinking to establish itself again and again. The discovery of the uncertainty of knowledge must be made...

Human systems and global governance.(Research Paper)
July 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Rereading Geoffrey Vickers' published work, one is struck not so much by its prescience, as by how much we still have to learn by it. His foresight was impressive enough. Writing in the decades before the phrase...

Geoffrey Vickers and a systematic approach to globalization.(Research Paper)
July 1, 2005... THE DIALECTICS OF HISTORY Geoffrey Vickers applied systems theory, originally developed in scientific and technological contexts, across an exceptionally wide range of human history, politics, culture and psychology, from individual to...

Learning to appreciate learning systems for environmental decision making: a 'work-in-progress' perspective.(Research Paper)
July 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Geoffrey Vickers shared many insights through his writing. He declared that his own interest lay 'chiefly in social and institutional relations' and in what he referred to as 'the ecology of ideas' (Vickers, 1978, p. 79). In...

Sir Geoffrey Vickers: some thoughts on his life and ideas.(Notes and Reflections)
July 1, 2005... I did not know Geoffrey Vickers well and met him only during the 1970s after I had become a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Fairly late on in that decade he came to give a talk in a seminar on issues in public administration that I was...

Statement at the Open University on the occasion of the launch of the Sir Geoffrey Vickers archive.(Notes and Reflections)
July 1, 2005... First, I should like, on behalf of the family, to thank all our friends at the Open University for arranging this special occasion, as well as the many friends who have come to celebrate it with us. Indeed, it is thanks to many of them that...

Memories of Geoffrey.(Notes and Reflections)(Geoffrey Vickers)
July 1, 2005... My memories of Geoffrey are of someone who listened quietly and spoke with a careful choice of words. He was driven by an underlying feeling of wonder in the world, and saw himself as a modest part of an amazing whole. He was able to appreciate...

My grandfather Geoffrey Vickers: his influence on my life and work.(Notes and Reflections)
July 1, 2005... The most direct influence Geoffrey has had on me has been through my mother, his daughter Pamela. I like to think that she passed on to me at least a few of his genes. Occasionally I recognize something of myself in descriptions of him. Once...

American Society for Cybernetics 2005 Conference, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, 27-30 October 2005.(News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Theme: The Many Interpretations and Applications of Cybernetics Many people have been, knowingly or unknowingly, using ideas, models and tools from the transdisciplinary science of cybernetics, such as circular causality, feedback, systems...

The Second International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, 9-12 January 2006.(News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... This conference aims to develop a holistic view of sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across diverse fields and taking varied perspectives...