How does #SystemsThinking relate to #Pragmatism? Within #PhilosophyOfScience, #CWestChurchman and #RussellLAckoff continued the #experimentalism of #EdgarASinger to put nonrelativistic pragmatism at the core of systems thinking in an entanglement of facts and values.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/nonrelativistic-pragmatism-and-systems-thinking/
@daviding
Wonderful intellectual history of systems thinking pragmatic roots. These two views of freedom seem deeply resonant: