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"Lugano Summer School (LSS 2008) memories"

PDF version of Ulrich's Bimonthly, July-August 2008
(in this site).*

Ulrich (2008c)  

A look back at the Doctoral and Postdoctoral Summer School on Soft and Critical Systems Thinking that took place at the University of Lugano from the 2nd to the 13th of June, 2008, with photos of the class and contributions by the participants.

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"Three reflections on reflective practice (2/3). Part 2: Applied science and expertise, or the art of testing and contesting practical claims"

PDF version of Ulrich's Bimonthly, May-June 2008
(in this site).*

Ulrich (2008b)  

A look at the role of science education today, and an attempt to redefine applied science and expertise so that they would be conducive to reflective professional practice.

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"Three reflections on reflective practice (1/3). Part 1: The mainstream concept of reflective practice and its blind spot"

PDF version of Ulrich's Bimonthly, March-April 2008 (in this site).*

Ulrich (2008a)  

A critique of the soft (psychological) bent of the notion of "reflective practice" as it has developed in the professional education literature, and of the way this neglects essential challenges that face professional education today.

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"The greening of pragmatism (3/3).
Part (iii): The way ahead"

PDF version of Ulrich's Bimonthly, September-October 2007 (in this site).*

Ulrich (2007f)  

An analysis of the interdependence of three methodological cornerstones of critical pragmatism – discourse theory (as understood in critical theory), pragmatic thought (as understood in American pragmatism), and reflective practice (as understood in critical heuristics).

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"The greening of pragmatism (2/3).
Part (ii): Current issues in developing critical pragmatism – a methodological trilemma"

PDF version of Ulrich's Bimonthly, May-June 2007 (in this site).*

Ulrich (2007d)  

A discussion of the way in which the proposed notion of critical pragmatism differs from other current notions, and of some of the methodological issues it raises.

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"The greening of pragmatism (1/3). Part (i): The emergence of critical pragmatism"

PDF version of Ulrich's Bimonthly, March-April 2007 (in this site).*

Ulrich (2007b)  

A brief history of the term "critical pragmatism" reveals its emergence from the confluence of different strands of pragmatic thinking

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"Rethinking critically reflective research practice: beyond Popper's critical rationalism"

Published in Journal of Research Practice 2, No. 2, 2006, article P1; PDF version of the open-access HTML publication available at http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/64/63

Ulrich (2006i)  

A critique of the foundationalist underpinnings of today's most widely adopted model of reflective research, the "fallibilist" model of critical rationalism and its "primacy of theory" doctrine

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"A plea for critical pragmatism"

PDF version of Ulrich's Bimonthly, September-October 2006 (in this site).*

Ulrich (2006h)  

The aims, hopes and chances that I associate with critical pragmatism, and the methodological challenge they imply – a "critical turn" of pragmatism

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"A brief introduction to Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH)"

Original publication prepared for ECOSENSUS, an e-Social Science project of The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (11 October 2005), also available at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/ecosensus/

Ulrich (2005f)

A 15-page introduction to critical systems heuristics, both for beginners and for advanced students. (Note: beginners may prefer to start with the two very short mini-primers offered in the "CSH" section of this site, cf. Ulrich 2002a and 2002b)

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"In memory of C. West Churchman (1913-2004): reminiscences, retrospectives, and reflections"

Prepublication version (with definitive layout and pagination) of a tribute paper published in the Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change, 1, Nos. 2-3, 2004, pp. 199-219.

Ulrich (2004d)  

A commemorative essay on C.W. Churchman's life and work, with a section on the core concerns and concepts of his philosophy of social systems design

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"A brief introduction to 'Critical Systems Thinking for Professionals & Citizens'"

Short version of a talk given to the 8th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics (InterSymp '96) in Baden-Baden, Germany, August 14-18, 1996. *

Ulrich (2003b)

A short introduction to the author's research program "CST for professionals & citizens"

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"Pragmatizing critical systems thinking for professionals and citizens"

Revised and expanded version of a talk given to the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, UK, on 28 November 1995. *

Ulrich (2003a)

Another short introduction to the author's research program "CST for professionals & citizens"

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"A bibliography of C. West Churchman's writings from 1938 to 2001"

Updated and expanded version of a bibliography originally compiled in 1999 for the Web Site of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS). First published as an independent  on-line source in November 2002, last updated in April 2006. *

Ulrich (2002g)   2006 revision and extension - now both in HTML and PDF format 

A bibliographic source of reference for people interested in the work of one of the founding fathers of the fields of operations research, management science, and the "systems approach"

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"An appreciation of C. West Churchman"

Revised version of a contribution of 1999 to the Section "Luminaries of the Systems Approach" of the Web Site of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS). The current version was published in the Section "A Tribute to C.W. Churchman" of the present site in 20002 and last updated in March 2006. *

Ulrich (2002f)   2006 revision

A personal appreciation of C.W. Churchman's philosophy of social systems design, and the role it played in my work on critical systems heuristics

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"Can we secure future-responsive management through systems thinking and design?"

Revised postpublication version of 2002 of an article originally published in Interfaces, 24, No. 4, 1994, Special Section: In Celebration of C.W. Churchman's 80 years, ed. by E. Koenigsberg and J.P. van Gigch, pp. 26-37. *

Ulrich (2002e)

A discussion of the requirements of future-responsive management in the light of C.W. Churchman's philosophy of social systems design

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"Public policy analysis"

Prepublication version of a contribution to the Informed Student Guide to Management Science, ed. by H.G. Daellenbach and R.L. Flood, Thomson, London, 2002, 213-215.

Ulrich (2002c)

A mini-introduction to the aims, history and present state of policy analysis

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"Critical systems heuristics"

Prepublication version of a contribution to the Informed Student Guide to Management Science, ed. by H.G. Daellenbach and R.L. Flood, Thomson, London, 2002, 72-73. *

Ulrich (2002b)

The shortest available introduction to CSH

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"Boundary critique"

Prepublication version of a contribution to the Informed Student Guide to Management Science, ed. by H.G. Daellenbach and R.L. Flood, Thomson, London, 2002, 41-42. *

Ulrich (2002a)

A very short introduction to the methodological core principle of CSH

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"Critically systemic discourse: a discursive approach to reflective practice in ISD (Part 2)"

Published in Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), 3, No. 3, 2001, 85-106 (online journal: http://jitta.org )

Ulrich (2001c)

Outlines a practical framework for applying the "philosophical staircase" presented in Part 1 (Ulrich 2001b) as a way to promote reflective ISD practice

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"A philosophical staircase for information systems definition, design, and development: a discursive approach to reflective practice in ISD (Part 1)"

Published in Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), 3, No. 3, 2001, 55-84 (online journal: http://jitta.org )

Ulrich (2001b)

Philosophical foundations of a critical approach to ISD, with special regard for a discursive approach

679 KB

"The quest for competence in systemic practice and research"

Prepublication version of a paper published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 18, No.1, 2001, 247-268.

Ulrich (2001a)

How can we develop competence in research and practice?

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"Reflective practice in the civil society: the contribution of critically systemic thinking"

Prepublication version of a paper published in Reflective Practice, 1, No. 2, 2000, 247-268.

Ulrich (2000a)

The most up-to-date account of my research program on CST for professionals & citizens;  at the same time a  review of the current state of CSH

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"Systems Thinking as if People Mattered"

Working Paper No. 23, Lincoln Management School, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK, 1998, 15pp.

Ulrich (1998c)

An introduction to my research program "CST for professionals & citizens"

298 KB

"Some difficulties of ecological thinking, considered from a critical systems perspective: a plea for critical holism"

Revised postpublication version of a paper first published in Systems Practice, 6, No. 6, pp. 583-611.

Ulrich (1993)  

Can systems thinking remedy the difficulties of ecological thinking? The need for a critically normative concept of ecology

278 KB