Ian's
Work in Progress (last updated Dec 2004)
Manifesto
(fixed record - Summer 2001) - if you haven't already read
it, my manifesto is the best place to start, it's where I started. (I'm mainly in research,
rather than publish mode at present, so much of the other "work in
progress" remains in early sketchy form. The real
work in progress is in my blog and in the various discussion threads
and forums used and to which I link. The manifesto is summarised in the
header of the blog pages.)
The Story So Far
(early draft - Summer 2002) - an update on the
main threads emerging from the research so far, one year on. This
is really the start of a
paper for publication, but still in progress. The threads include (1) Values-and-Levels, (2) Rationalisation, (3) Emergence, (4)
Many-a-true-word, (5) Nothing-new-under-the-sun.
Challenge
(Autumn 2001) - Some early thoughts on
pragmatic targets in seeking a generic model for Knowledge. (Effectively
superseded - a preamble published at the
very start of the blog.)
Managing Change and Flexibility
(1991, last update 1994) -
Attitudes and Organisational Culture. MBA Dissertation including a treatise on behavioural aspects of communication and decision making.
Origins of my making the connection with Argyris (Rationalisation
behaviour), Brunsson (Irrationality & Hypocrisy), Quinn & Cameron (Paradoxes),
and of course Maslow / Hetzberg / Ouichi (Psychology & Motivation), not to mention management
gurus Peter Drucker, Tom Peters and Charles Handy. (The highest graded dissertation in my
year, a piece of work of which I remain proud. Despite being un-related to
knowledge modelling or epistemology when written, it clearly represents the
roots of my thinking at that time, the half-way point of my working life to
date. The on-line HTML copy doesn't include all figures and tables, but these
remain available.)
Semantic Glossary
(1999, last update 2002) - glossary of epistemological terms (Naive
beginnings. Through 1996 to 1999, and since, I had been heavily involved
in standards for business information modelling. This glossary
represents my earliest recognition that more fundamental philosophical /
epistemological issues lay behind what we were doing. FWIW, like Marvin
Minsky, I have since
formed the view that communication and language being what they are, a
Glossary is perhaps not the best way to "fix" meaning. See
the quote on this page which includes a collection
of glossaries, dictionaries and relevant encyclopedias.)
Research Proposal
(2000, updated 2003) - a draft PhD research proposal based around the
subject of this WebLog.
(Includes significant repetition of the Manifesto, and expands on
research possibilities.)
Brain Dump
(2000) - a disorganised dump of issues - would
benefit from mind-mapping. (Part of the content is now detailed better in
Manifesto. I have considered expanding into Fuzzy Cognitive Map covering the
"fuzzy" scope of this research exercise.)
Review (2001) of Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. (Affectionately
referred to as "ZMM". Really just a placeholder of initial
impressions. It links almost immediately to my "Pirsig
Project Pages")
Review (2002) of The Blank Slate by Steven
Pinker.
Review (2003) of A
Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins, entitled
"Hyper-Rationalism".
Review (2002) of Seven Pillars of Wisdom by
T. E. Lawrence. (Just a placeholder to probably the only
non-technical-business-related material I read between 1972 (aged 16)
and 2001 (aged 45) !!! TEL no longer remains an obsession, but he does
represent my first inkling of a link between the arts and sciences.)
Review (2002) of Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
(Just a placeholder. A read prompted by George Steiner's 15th April 1974 New
Yorker review of Pirsig's ZMM which was entitled "Uneasy
Rider". Several snippets of review exist in the
blog itself.)
Review (2002) of The Ascent of Man by Jacob
Bronowski. (Just a placeholder. A TV series and a book that made
a huge impression on me in 1970's, though at the time I didn't recognise
the reason was in the link between science and humanities, Several other
links to his other writings and those of his daughter, Lisa Jardine.)
Bibliography and
Other Reviews (Technically still under construction, but in fact the
blog itself is a time-ordered journal of hundreds of books I have read, and
thoughts about them since 2001. For reference purposes a more conventional
bibliography will be constructed from the journal, in the meantime, use the
search facility within the blog.)
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