Not available except behind paywall from main link, but fully readable if not downloadable on Scribd: William M. Fox The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science Volume 26, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1177/0021886390262014 Abstract William M. Fox interviews Eric Trist, eminent scholar and social scientist, who was a founder and chairman of the Tavistock Institute in London. Trist recounts the foundation of […]
There is a close relationship between the pragmatic theory of signs and the pragmatic theory of inquiry. In fact, the correspondence between the two studies exhibits so many congruences and parallels it is often best to treat them as integral parts of one and the same subject. In a very real sense, inquiry is the […]
[Includes my short reflections on the SysPrac25 conference – longer version will be published here eventually, if I haven’t already done that!] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ifsr-quarterly-42025-window-mirror-3vnff/ Louis Klein introduced it thusly: #quarterly International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) with musings by Ray Ison, a generated reflection on hashtag#sysprac25 by Benjamin P. Taylor, a link by Dr. Louis Klein, […]
One of Peirce’s clearest and most complete definitions of a sign is one he gives in the context of providing a definition for logic, and so it is informative to view it in that setting. Logic will here be defined as formal semiotic. A definition of a sign will be given which no more refers […]
Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun, and of doing so with the same reproductive power, the sunflower would become a Representamen of the sun. — C.S. Peirce, Collected Papers, […]
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And on Wednesday I’m hosting the Public Sector Show (29/30 June) – a brilliant conference starting on Tuesday. Free tickets still available at https://publicsectorshow.co.uk/
So the best questions will go into the discussions!
It’s billed as ‘procurement’ but actually is at least partly about how we can reconsider how money is turned into public outcomes!
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