Root Metaphors and World Hypotheses | Systems Thinking Ontario | 2023-01-09
Channel: David Ing
Date: 2023-01-14

The substantive content begins after a 15-minute round of self-introductions by participants.  

The Socio-Ecological Systems Perspective from the Tavistock Institute (and not necessary the Social-Ecological Systems perspective of the Resilience Alliance) has a foundation in Contextualism, originating from Stephen C. Pepper with World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence (1942).

A Root Metaphor is induced from a World Hypothesis.  Coming from a theory of knowledge based in doubt, a World Hypothesis might approach a World Theory (e.g. a theory of everything), but a philosophical inquiry focused on evidence invokes a more critical eye.

Towards an appreciation of this body of work, David Ing has produced a federated wiki site at http://wh.daviding.wiki.openlearning.cc/view/welcome-visitors/view/world-hypotheses

The January 9 session saw David Ing roaming over the wiki site, with Zaid Khan serving as an inquiring critic to improve understandability.  Dan Eng  moderated questions and comments from the audience.  

This session was announced at https://wiki.st-on.org/2023-01-09