C West Churchman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3715063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C West Churchman |
| GIVEN NAMES | C West |
| FAMILY NAME | Churchman |
| SIGNATURE | CHURCHMAN C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Early Years of the Philosophy of Science Association
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On dictionaries
Notes on the Organization of an Exoteric University
West Churchman's distinction between the esoteric university and the exoteric university draws attention to the particular way in which we are used to thinking about higher education, and provokes us to consider the centrality of participation as a social value and the role of education in enabling it
The design of inquiring systems: Basic concepts of systems and organization
Challenge to Reason
PPB: How Can It be Implemented
16. City of New York, Budget Message of the Mayor to the Board of Estimate and the City Council for FY 1967-1968, April 15, 1967. 17. Memorandum from Edward J. Martin, Director of Finance, City of Philadelphia, to All Offices, Departments, Commissions and list attached, February 8, 1968. 18. Of the ten cities and counties in the 5-5-5 Project, all except New Haven report continuing work after the close of the project on PPB systems implementation…
On the Design of Inductive Systems: Some Philosophical Problems
Experience and Reflection
Measurement: Definitions and Theories
Experience and Reflection
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas
Introduction to Operations Research
Introduction to Operations Research
Science and Decision Making
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Operationism. A. Cornelius Benjamin
Concepts without Primitives
1. Outline of the Project. This paper is intended to be a progress report on a project in philosophy of science. The immediate stimulus of this report is the eightieth birthday of E. A. Singer, Jr., who was the inspiration of the project, and, needless to say, though responsible for the whole is not responsible for the misconceptions in the specific parts
Practical Logic
News and Notices
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Methods of Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy and Scientific Method
Purposive Behavior and Cybernetics
Journal Article Purposive Behavior and Cybernetics Get access C. W. Churchman, C. W. Churchman Wayne University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. L. Ackoff R. L. Ackoff Wayne University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 29, Issue 1, October 1950, Pages 32–39, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572754 Published: 01 October 1950
Logical Reconstructionism
Comments on Professor Feigl's very comprehensive review of the problem of existential hypotheses may take one of two forms. One may accept the problem in Feigl's own terms and either sympathize or criticize the realistic empiricism to which he subscribes. Or, one may feel that the entire approach is ill-founded, and hence that the distinctions in viewpoints which he draws are comparable to splits in a political party whose basic tenets are incomp…
When Do We Start Value Research
Reply to Comments on “Statistics, Pragmatics, Induction“
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Theory of Experimental Inference
Dr. William M. Malisoff
Since the turn of the century there has been a strong trend to break through the wall which has separated philosophy from the “special sciences” and to investigate the problems which require a good judgment in both philosophy and science. The evolution of science itself and the increasing relevance of science in human life have given immense momentum to this trend. But this momentum could not be appreciated in its actual strength because scientis…
Statistics, Pragmatics, Induction
1. Deductive and Inductive Inference. Within the traditional treatments of scientific method, e.g., in (2) and (25), it was customary to divide scientific inference into two parts: deductive and inductive. Deductive inference was taken to mean the activity of deducing theorems from postulates and definitions, whereas inductive inference represented the activity of constructing a general statement from a set of particular “facts.” Deductive infere…
Statistics, Pragmatics, Induction
1. Deductive and Inductive Inference. Within the traditional treatments of scientific method, e.g., in (2) and (25), it was customary to divide scientific inference into two parts: deductive and inductive. Deductive inference was taken to mean the activity of deducing theorems from postulates and definitions, whereas inductive inference represented the activity of constructing a general statement from a set of particular “facts.” Deductive infere…
An Experimental Measure of Personality
The boundaries of psychology have never been very distinctly defined and, as a consequence, science has witnessed frequent border incidents. But it obviously is not psychology alone which suffers from such lack of delineation, but its neighbors, the biological and social sciences, do as well. Cooperation between sciences becomes difficult under these conditions. All agree that psychology is the science of mind, but few agree to what “mind” is. At…
Science and Decision Making
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PPB: How Can It be Implemented
16. City of New York, Budget Message of the Mayor to the Board of Estimate and the City Council for FY 1967-1968, April 15, 1967. 17. Memorandum from Edward J. Martin, Director of Finance, City of Philadelphia, to All Offices, Departments, Commissions and list attached, February 8, 1968. 18. Of the ten cities and counties in the 5-5-5 Project, all except New Haven report continuing work after the close of the project on PPB systems implementation…
Varieties of Unification
“Unification of Science” is probably the most popular slogan in contemporary philosophy. This phrase has not only become the cry of a specific group of philosophers, but it is now accepted as one of the aims of philosophy by most of the contemporary philosophic schools, with but few exceptions. Each particular school believes that it has found the way of effecting such a unification, implicitly assuming that it knows the conditions for a unified …
On the Design of Inductive Systems: Some Philosophical Problems
Measurement: Definitions and Theories
Introduction to Operations Research
Concepts without Primitives
1. Outline of the Project. This paper is intended to be a progress report on a project in philosophy of science. The immediate stimulus of this report is the eightieth birthday of E. A. Singer, Jr., who was the inspiration of the project, and, needless to say, though responsible for the whole is not responsible for the misconceptions in the specific parts
Measurement of Consumer Interest
Journal Article Measurement of Consumer Interest Get access Measurement of Consumer Interest. Edited by C. WEST CHURCHMAN, RUSSELL L. ACKOEF, MURRAY WAX. (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (Oxford University Press), 1947. Pp. 214. $3.50.) M. A. Abrams M. A. Abrams London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 57, Issue 228, 1 December 1947, Pages 515–517, https://doi.org…
III. Non-Mechanical Concepts
The reader will be a patient one indeed who has not long since raised in his mind what appear to be pertinent and pressing problems concerning the description of experimental method that has so far been given. These questions are mainly concerned with matters of omission: for example, we have said that if a lack of control is shown, then the image should be changed. But how changed? What principle or method guides the selection of a new image of …
II. Postulates of Experimental Method
In order adequately to refute the charge that relativism makes against any absolute answer to problems of science, it will be necessary for us to generalize upon the principal theme and attempt a characterization of experimental methodology. Only by thus determining what constitutes experimental inquiry in general can we hope to define that particular aspect of it which involves the concept of probability
I. Background
It is a curious fact that in the many writings on the theory of probability, one rarely finds an instance of a clear cut definition of the fundamental problem of the subject. On intuitive grounds, one grasps the intent of most of the authors: it is to define the concept of probability and to show its relationship to the other concepts of science; and yet since the criterion of adequacy in the answering of this question is rarely stated, one must …
A Challenge
In recent issues of the Journal of Philosophy John Dewey and Arthur Bentley have been making an attack on certain logical positivists and other logicians on the ground, of all things, that they display amazing contempt for clear and consistent definition of the terms they use. That logicians, whose business it is to define consistency, should themselves be inconsistent in the use of their basic terms is not really so surprising. It may merely pro…
On the Meaningfulness of Questions
The history of Western culture exhibits a profound cleavage of opinion on the nature of what its members take to be reality. On the one hand, there are those for whom certain aspects, at least, of the “real” exist in the human mind only. Others assign as the sole basis of reality the world of non-mental objects. This difference of temperament is so pervasive that it forms a perennial theme, not only for philosophers, but also for scientists, poet…
Varieties of Unification
“Unification of Science” is probably the most popular slogan in contemporary philosophy. This phrase has not only become the cry of a specific group of philosophers, but it is now accepted as one of the aims of philosophy by most of the contemporary philosophic schools, with but few exceptions. Each particular school believes that it has found the way of effecting such a unification, implicitly assuming that it knows the conditions for a unified …
Carnap's “On Inductive Logic”
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Philosophical Aspect of Statistical Theory
Commentary
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Ethics and Science
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An Experimental Measure of Personality
The boundaries of psychology have never been very distinctly defined and, as a consequence, science has witnessed frequent border incidents. But it obviously is not psychology alone which suffers from such lack of delineation, but its neighbors, the biological and social sciences, do as well. Cooperation between sciences becomes difficult under these conditions. All agree that psychology is the science of mind, but few agree to what “mind” is. At…
Measurement of Consumer Interest
Journal Article Measurement of Consumer Interest Get access Measurement of Consumer Interest. Edited by C. WEST CHURCHMAN, RUSSELL L. ACKOEF, MURRAY WAX. (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (Oxford University Press), 1947. Pp. 214. $3.50.) M. A. Abrams M. A. Abrams London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 57, Issue 228, 1 December 1947, Pages 515–517, https://doi.org…
Dr. William M. Malisoff
Since the turn of the century there has been a strong trend to break through the wall which has separated philosophy from the “special sciences” and to investigate the problems which require a good judgment in both philosophy and science. The evolution of science itself and the increasing relevance of science in human life have given immense momentum to this trend. But this momentum could not be appreciated in its actual strength because scientis…
Statistics, Pragmatics, Induction
1. Deductive and Inductive Inference. Within the traditional treatments of scientific method, e.g., in (2) and (25), it was customary to divide scientific inference into two parts: deductive and inductive. Deductive inference was taken to mean the activity of deducing theorems from postulates and definitions, whereas inductive inference represented the activity of constructing a general statement from a set of particular “facts.” Deductive infere…
Reply to Comments on “Statistics, Pragmatics, Induction“
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Theory of Experimental Inference
Purposive Behavior and Cybernetics
Journal Article Purposive Behavior and Cybernetics Get access C. W. Churchman, C. W. Churchman Wayne University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. L. Ackoff R. L. Ackoff Wayne University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 29, Issue 1, October 1950, Pages 32–39, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572754 Published: 01 October 1950
Logical Reconstructionism
Comments on Professor Feigl's very comprehensive review of the problem of existential hypotheses may take one of two forms. One may accept the problem in Feigl's own terms and either sympathize or criticize the realistic empiricism to which he subscribes. Or, one may feel that the entire approach is ill-founded, and hence that the distinctions in viewpoints which he draws are comparable to splits in a political party whose basic tenets are incomp…
When Do We Start Value Research
News and Notices
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Methods of Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy and Scientific Method
Practical Logic
Concepts without Primitives
1. Outline of the Project. This paper is intended to be a progress report on a project in philosophy of science. The immediate stimulus of this report is the eightieth birthday of E. A. Singer, Jr., who was the inspiration of the project, and, needless to say, though responsible for the whole is not responsible for the misconceptions in the specific parts
Science and Decision Making
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Operationism. A. Cornelius Benjamin
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