Talk:Systems thinking/Archives/2014

List of people

Why don´t we add a list of people that are the main writers about the theme divided by discipline and perhaps country?--186.231.120.245 (talk) 01:32, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

The Problem with the Word "Thinking"

I have just submitted the final manuscript for an introductory textbook on systems science to the publisher (Springer) with possible publication by the start of the academic year in fall, 2014. While I understand the use of the term "systems thinking" in a very broad sense, and use Donnela Meadows' book, Thinking in Systems, for teaching several introductory courses, the concept is not really well defined anywhere that I know of. I have started work on a cognitive psychological approach and prefer the term systems cognition to describe a construct that includes perception, construction of concepts, intuitions, judgments, reasoning, and praxis based on systems. The problem is that the word thinking has too many different interpretations and is certainly too vague for a subject like this. At this current juncture, with so many different ideas about what systems thinking might entail, it might be better to simply state that systems thinking is generally characterized as a mode of thinking (cognition), provide some examples of what various authors have said about it and not try to be so declarative of what the term means. Just my $0.02. George.mobus (talk) 17:51, 11 June 2014 (UTC)