Science as Systemic Intervention: Some Implications of Systems Thinking and Complexity for the Philosophy of Science

By Gerald Midgley. 2003

169 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computational Theory and Mathematics, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Management Science and Operations Research

1. M. Howden
2. K. O’Brien
3. S. Moser
4. M. Reed
5. B. V. Mierlo
6. P. Tschakert
7. Alta De Vos
8. Reinette Biggs

In Sociology and Political Science

1. K. O’Brien
2. S. Moser
3. M. Reed
4. P. Tschakert
5. P. Olsson
6. Carl Folke
7. I. Fazey
8. W. Sheate

Citations in the corpus

• Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research (2018, background): “Because observation is just one type of intervention, scientific techniques are part of a more pluralistic set of intervention methods, including methods for exploring values, reflecting on subjective understandings and planning future activities [48].”
• Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches (2018, background): “This choice does not need to be arbitrary in any way, but the status of the framework (and the framework itself) should not be used as the basis for making claims about knowledge as being truly objective (Ulrich 1994, Midgley 2003, Preiser and Cilliers 2010, Woermann and Cilliers 2012).”