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C. West Churchman

Philosophy

#285

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#651

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#129

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Logic

#137

World Rank

#321

Historical Rank

#62

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PhD Philosophy University of Pennsylvania
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According to Wikipedia, Charles West Churchman was an American philosopher and systems scientist, who was Professor at the School of Business Administration and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was internationally known for his pioneering work in operations research, system analysis and ethics.

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C. West Churchman's Published Works

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The Systems Approach (1979) (1162)
The design of inquiring systems: basic concepts of systems and organization (1971) (1046)
The systems approach and its enemies (1979) (645)
Introduction to operations research (1957) (530)
An Approximate Measure of Value (1954) (392)
The Researcher and The Manager: A Dialectic of Implementation (1965) (352)
Operations Research as a Profession (1970) (310)
Science and Decision Making (1956) (297)
Challenge to Reason (1968) (245)
Measurement: Definitions and Theories (1960) (149)
Prediction And Optimal Decision (1961) (145)
Thought and Wisdom (1984) (109)
Experience and Reflection (1959) (94)
Theory of Experimental Inference. (1949) (92)
The Ground of Induction. (1947) (60)
Management Sciences, Models and Techniques. (1961) (54)
Purposive Behavior and Cybernetics (1950) (52)
Managerial Acceptance of Scientific Recommendations (1964) (48)
Prediction and optimal decision : philosophical issues of a science of values / C.W. Churchman (1962) (47)
Ethics and Science (1947) (44)
Churchman, Charles West, The Design of Inquiring Systems: Basic Concepts of Systems and Organization . New York: Basic Books, 1971. (1971) (42)
Management Science: Science of Managing and Managing of Science (1994) (41)
On Mutual Understanding (1965) (39)
Statistics, Pragmatics, Induction (1948) (37)
An Experimental Measure of Personality (1947) (33)
A philosophy for complexity (1975) (33)
On the Statistics of Sensitivity Data (1944) (30)
The X of X (1963) (28)
Methods of Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy and Scientific Method (1951) (28)
Varieties of Unification (1946) (27)
On the Meaningfulness of Questions (1946) (21)
On the Design of Inductive Systems: Some Philosophical Problems (1969) (21)
Carnap's "On Inductive Logic" (1946) (21)
In Memoriam: Dr. William M. Malisoff (1948) (21)
Churchman's conversations (1986) (21)
Philosophical speculations on systems design (1974) (20)
Reliability of Models in the Social Sciences (1973) (14)
The status of the systems approach: Reply to Bryer (1980) (13)
The Role of Weltanschauung in Problem Solving and Inquiry (1970) (13)
PPB: How Can It be Implemented? (1969) (12)
The Artificiality of Science. (1970) (12)
Preface to Some Papers on Educational Issues in the Management Sciences and Operations Research (1970) (11)
Perspectives of the Systems Approach (1974) (11)
Concepts without Primitives (1953) (10)
Kant — A decision theorist? (1970) (10)
On Rational Decision Making (1962) (9)
Ackoff comes of age (1990) (8)
Operations Research Prospects for Libraries: The Realities and Ideals (1972) (8)
Management Science, The Journal (1955) (8)
On dictionaries (2005) (8)
What Is Philosophy of Science? (1994) (8)
Perception and Deception (1966) (7)
The Way of Inquiring Systems@@@The Design of Inquiring Systems. (1985) (7)
Towards a General Logic of Propositions (1942) (7)
Preface to the Discussion of the ORSA Guidelines (1972) (7)
Tests of Increased Severity (1946) (6)
The management of science and the mismanagement of the world (1994) (6)
Management Science--Fact or Theory? (1956) (6)
On finite and infinite modal systems (1938) (6)
Sampling and Persuasion (1960) (5)
Statistical Manual. Methods of Making Experimental Inferences (1951) (5)
Ethics, Ideals, and Dissatisfaction (1952) (5)
Measurement of consumer interest (1947) (5)
Problems of Value Measurement for a Theory of Induction and Decisions (1956) (5)
Correspondence Systems Profile (1987) (5)
Elements of logic and formal science (1941) (5)
The theory of the firm: An epistemological analysis (1997) (5)
Poverty and development (1998) (4)
Commentary on the Researcher and the Manager (1965) (4)
The Democratization of Philosophy (1949) (4)
Churchman's conversations: Churchman's Conversations (1987) (4)
Towards a theory of application in systems science (1975) (4)
Churchman's Conversations: Peace and Science (1987) (3)
Management sciences : models and techniques : proceedings of the Sixth International Meeting of the Institute of Management Sciences, Conservatoire national des arts & métiers, Paris, 7-11 September 1959 (1960) (3)
Black enterprise, inc. : case studies of a new experiment in Black business development (1973) (3)
Book Reviews: Prediction and Optimal Decision. Philosophical issues of a science of values (1961) (3)
An appreciation of C. West Churchman (2009) (3)
Most Economic Sampling for Chemical Analysis (1946) (3)
The Dialectic of Modern Philosophy (1946) (3)
The case against planning—the beloved community (1968) (3)
Philosophical Aspect of Statistical Theory (1946) (3)
Real time systems and public information (1968) (2)
Gown and town: Planning our lives (1981) (2)
Churchman's Conversations Peace and Science (continued) (1988) (2)
Foreword: To Monograph on Case Histories in Management Sciences (1960) (2)
Operations Research in the Chemical Industry (1956) (2)
Early Years of the Philosophy of Science Association (1984) (2)
The Closed Corporation. American Universities in Crisis. James Ridgeway. Random House, New York, 1968. xii + 276 PP., $5.95 (1969) (1)
Systems and Management Annual 1975 (1975) (1)
Management science and human values: a retrospect (1976) (1)
On Comparison and administration (1973) (1)
Review: Rudolf Carnap, On the Application of Inductive Logic (1948) (1)
The role of the research administrator. (1965) (1)
Center for Research in Management Science (1)
Realism in Management Science: A Report (1961) (1)
On comparison and administration - A philosophical discourse Internal working paper no. 1 (1971) (1)
Symposium Summary the Safety Profession’s Image of Humanity (1980) (1)
Knowledge and Action (1942) (1)
Towards an experimental measure of personality. (1947) (1)
Ethics of large systems (1967) (1)
Measurement: A Systems Approach (1972) (1)
Logical Reconstructionism (1950) (1)
Management education: Preparation for uncertainty (1972) (1)
On large models of systems (1966) (1)
SIGNPOSTS TO SUCCESSFUL SYSTEMS PRACTICE (1985) (0)
Book reviews (1972) (0)
Setting the objectives of organizations (1969) (0)
Morality and planning. Part 1 - Overview (1969) (0)
Introduction (2001) (0)
3. Analysis of Concepts (1992) (0)
Design of Inquiring Systems/Singerian Inquiring Systems, Chapter 7 (1970) (0)
Measurement: Definitions and Theories.@@@Communication, Organization, and Science. (1960) (0)
Evaluating chiller performance (2003) (0)
Techniques of Statistical Analysis. Statistical Research GroupSampling Inspection. Statistical Research Group (1949) (0)
Comments on Mr. Ushenko's Theses (1953) (0)
News and Notices (1951) (0)
A Challenge (1945) (0)
Behavior and the Relative Importance of Values (1965) (0)
In Search of a Way of Life (1949) (0)
Probability Theory. I. Background (1945) (0)
A discussion of Dewey and Bentley's "postulations" (1946) (0)
SARTON, GEORGE. The History of Science and the New Humanism. Pp. xx, 196. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1937. $2.00 (1938) (0)
11. Lineare Programme (1971) (0)
Hegelian Inquiring System, Chapter VI (1966) (0)
Notes on the Organization of an Exoteric University (1974) (0)
Computers, System Science, and Evolving Society. The Challenge of Man-Machine Digital Systems. Harold Sackman. Wiley, New York, 1967. xviii + 638 pp., illus. $14.50 (1968) (0)
Reply to Comments on "Statistics, Pragmatics, Induction" (1949) (0)
Practical Logic.@@@Logic.@@@Methods of Inquiry. (1952) (0)
WERTHEIMER, MAX. Productive Thinking. Pp, viii, 224. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945. $3.00 (1947) (0)
Review: Rudolf Carnap, Reply to Nelson Goodman (1948) (0)
Much Ado about Probability (1947) (0)
Bergmann Gustav. Some comments on Carnap's logic of induction. Philosophy of science , vol. 13 (1946) pp. 71–78. (1946) (0)
Systems analysis and organization theory - A critique (1971) (0)
Applied systems and cybernetics, volume III: Human systems, sociocybernetics, management and organizations: G.E. LASKER (Ed.) Proceedings of the international congress on applied Systems research and cybernetics; Pergamon Press, New York, 1981, xxx + 515 pages, $80.00 (1983) (0)
WHEN DO WE START VALUE RESEARCH (2010) (0)
Review: Gustav Bergmann, Some Comments on Carnap's Logic of Induction (1946) (0)
Probability Theory. III. Non-Mechanical Concepts (1945) (0)
Natural Resource Administration: Introducing a New Methodology for Management Development (1984) (0)
Operationism.A. Cornelius Benjamin (1956) (0)
On causes in human affairs (1984) (0)
TABLES FOR SENSITIVITY TESTS CONDUCTED AT TWO STIMULI (1953) (0)
Response : Methods in Parapsychology (1967) (0)
Definition of Earth Resource Policy and Management Problems in California (1971) (0)
The Mathematical Analysis of Logic. George Boole (1949) (0)
Probability Theory. II. Postulates of Experimental Method (1945) (0)

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