John P. van Gigch is the Series Editor for the Book Series Churchman’s Legacy and Related Works which he was instrumental in getting started. van Gigch knew West Churchman as well as his family personally. Churchman wrote an Introduction for van Gigch’s Applied General System Theory which was published in 1974, with a Second Edition in 1978. van Gigch remained close to West Churchman after the latter retired from the University of California-Berkeley. Right to the end, they celebrated several of West’s birthdays together.
3 Ebooks by John P. van Gigch
John P. van Gigch: Wisdom, Knowledge, and Management:
In Wisdom, Knowledge, and Management: A Critique and Analysis of Churchman’s Systems Approach, the 2nd volume of the series entitled Churchman’s Legacy and Related Works, the editors draw contributio …
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€234.33
John P. van Gigch: Metadecisions
Metadecisions: Rehabilitating Epistemology constitutes an epistemological inquiry about the foundations of knowledge of a scientific discipline. This text warns contemporary scientific disciplines …
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€226.79
John P. van Gigch: System Design Modeling and Metamodeling
This book is a venture in the worlds of modeling and of metamodeling. At this point, I will not reveal to readers what constitutes metamodeling. Suf- fice it to say that the pitfalls and shortcomings …
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€161.71
