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STRATEGIES FOR WINNING ACCEPTANCE OF SECOND ORDER CYBERN... Umpleby Department of Management Science George Washingt... Washington, DC 20052 USA Guest Scholar, Summer 1991 Inst... Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence University of Vi... A-1010 Vien

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STRATEGIES FOR WINNING ACCEPTANCE OF SECOND ORDER CYBERNETICS by Stuart A. Umpleby Department of Management Science George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 USA Guest Scholar, Summer 1991 Institute for Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence University of Vienna Freyung 6, A-1010 Vienna, Austria August 20, 1991 Presented at the International Symposium on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics Baden-Baden, Germany, August 12-18, 1991 ABSTRACT In the last two decades an intellectual movement associated with the term "second order cybernetics" has taken shape within the systems theory and cybernetics community. The ideas associated with this movement promise to have an important impact on the philosophy of science. However, the ideas have spread slowly. This paper reviews the strategies that have so far been employed in attempts to win acceptance for second order cybernetics. Four strategies are discussed: develop the new point of view; develop applications of the new ideas to show their usefulness; reconstruct the philosophy of science incorporating the new ideas; and contrast the philosophical origins of cybernetics with that of the dominant scientific world view. KEYWORDS Second order cybernetics; epistemology; knowledge; constructivism; scientific revolution.

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STRATEGIES FOR WINNING ACCEPTANCE OF SECOND ORDER CYBERNETICS by Stuart A. Umpleby Department of Management Science George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 USA Guest Scholar, Summer 1991 Institute for Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence University of Vienna Freyung 6, A-1010 Vienna, Austria August 20, 1991 Presented at the International Symposium on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics Baden-Baden, Germany, August 12-18, 1991 ABSTRACT In the last two decades an intellectual movement associated with the term "second order cybernetics" has taken shape within the systems theory and cybernetics community. The ideas associated with this movement promise to have an important impact on the philosophy of science. However, the ideas have spread slowly. This paper reviews the strategies that have so far been employed in attempts to win acceptance for second order cybernetics. Four strategies are discussed: develop the new point of view; develop applications of the new ideas to show their usefulness; reconstruct the philosophy of science incorporating the new ideas; and contrast the philosophical origins of cybernetics with that of the dominant scientific world view. KEYWORDS Second order cybernetics; epistemology; knowledge; constructivism; scientific revolution.