Thinking Systematically

Thomas and Agatha Hughes, Systems, Experts, and Computers

Bibliographic Data

ID4025567
AuthorsMichael D Gordin (0000-0001-5853-7503), Sam Schweber
Year2002
Volume43
Issue2
Pages390-397
Publication date2002-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTechnology and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/tech.2002.0062
OpenAlexW2024442827
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited1

Judging from the 2001 promotional pamphlet of the Operations Research Center at MIT, competence in systems analysis is an essential component in the training of the present-day manager. The ubiquity of this attitude toward systems thinking demands an understanding of the origins and importance of this phenomenon. As historians of science approaching this field from the outside, we see great promise in the historiographical questions that the study of the origins and development of systems thinking raises. Central to these are issues of narrative, agency, and causation. Fortunately, several historians of technology have begun to explore these areas anew, and we would like to take this opportunity to reflect on one important such attempt, the recent volume edited by Thomas and Agatha Hughes, Systems, Experts and Computers. 1

Agatha · Agency (philosophy) · Art · Art history · Causation · Competence (human resources) · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Historiography · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Systems thinking · Artificial Intelligence · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · History · History of Science and Medicine · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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