Metadecisions
Subtitle: Rehabilitating Epistemology (Contemporary Systems Thinking)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780306474583
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Risk assessment & analysis for business; Sociological Theory; Social Science; Science; Sociology; Epistemology; Philosophy & Social Aspects; System Theory; Business & Economics / Operations Research; Sociology - General; Decision making; Social systems
First sentence: The design of any human activity requires the intervention of several different inquiring systems where the manager, the engineer, the scientist, the epistemologist, the ethicist and the artist, contribute to shape how problems in the real-world are formulated, how decisions to solve problems are taken, and, finally, how actions are implemented.