SUO: Re: Membrance Of Things Parsed
Robert Meersman wrote:
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> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:24:27 -0500 Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu> wrote:
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> [Jon Awbrey wrote:]
> >
> > Myself, I have spoken of this facet of interpretation so often here
> > and elsewhere that it would be difficult for me to recount them all,
> > but here are some links that leap to mind:
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> > http://www.shss.montclair.edu/inquiry/fall95/awbrey.html
> > http://www.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/awbrey/integrat.htm
> > http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg00683.html
> >
> >...
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> ### Jon, that first URL appears to be dead, and the last one doesn't
> even seem to contain the word "interpretation" or "interpret" so unless
> I'm missing a point it could be a mistaken reference; as for the second one
> its subject is the "creation of integrative universities in the 21st century" --
> it is a very long paper so I would be grateful if you could extract the relevant
> portion for me and briefly put it in the context of my message, many thanks in advance.
>
> -- Robert Meersman
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Robert,
Sorry, I wrote that in a blur, and in a hurry, and
after the midnight hour of day when I should have
quit while I was ahead, but I can see now that
I should provide a better set-up for what is,
first and foremost, a very important issue.
I will start this thread again later today or tomorrow
if I get a chance, since you have inspired me to try
and tackle these issues again -- and now everybody
knows who to blame!
On the rude mechanics of it all:
The Montclair site is a university server that
is up and down intermittently, especially on
weekends, holidays, and so on -- maintenance? --
also, the paper was in a journal that changed
hands from one U to another recently, so maybe
they are letting it go. It was published in:
'Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines',
Volume 15, Number 1, Autumn 1995, pages 40-52.
I cannot find a Word copy, but I could send
you a photocopy if the website stays down.
The "Creating Integrative Universities" paper comes mainly
out of Sue's research and application areas, but afforded
me a chance to fold in some of my favorite Peircean themes.
We gave it at a "Re-Organizing Knowledge" (ROK) Conference
in Amherst in 1999, that really opened my eyes to the fact
that a whole lot of people out there really are beginning
to get this stuff and to try to follow up its educational
ramifications and its social repercussions. Gave me hope.
http://www.som.umass.edu/som/resource/projects/conference
See, some of this really does have applications!
Also the "learning organization" paradigm is one
in which systems theory is used to understand how
agents of IO (interpretation-observation) are placed
within environments of communication about objective
pragmata, and also how systems (of people, whatever)
can develop and evolve to be more intelligent than
any of their unnaturally severed components.
Society for Organizational Learning (SOL):
http://www.sol-ne.org/
A "new and improved" version of this paper will soon appear in the journal
'Organization: Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory, & Society',
in a special issue dedicated to selected papers from the ROK Conference --
so stay tuned, I will let you know when it rolls off the presses.
http://www.som.umass.edu/som/pub/organization
The last link is to a message where I was responding to another's
raising of a related issue and trying to use the language given --
will explain the parts of it that I think are relevant later ...
Have a good day,
Jon Awbrey
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