Pragmatism meets systems thinking: The legacy of c. west churchman

Rescuing The Enlightenment from Itself

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 165-212

  Matthews, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary judgements; Critical thinking; Critique; Neo pragmatism; Philosophy; Pragmatism; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886755638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-27589-4_10     Document Type: Chapter

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