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Debora Hammond has joined ISSS in 19XX. He/She is .....
Personal Life
Debora was born in 1951. She is an American who has received her B.A. in History in 1974 at Stanford University. She taught at the secondary level in Colorado and on the Hopi Reservation, and returned to graduate school in 1989 to study History of Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Academia and Career
Debora was 2005-2006 President, She hosted the 50th anniversary conference at Sonoma State University, July 9-14, 2006.
Special Interests
Debora's book on the history of systems thinking, The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory (2003/2010), documents a unique episode in the history of modern thought that remains relevant for our times. It examines the origins of systems thinking in such fields as engineering, management, organismic biology, cybernetics, information, ecology and social theory, and discusses the work of the founders of the Society for General Systems Theory, including Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding, Ralph Gerard, James Grier Miller, and Anatol Rapoport.
Video Presentations
Selected Publications
- The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory, (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2003, paperback edition 2010).
- “All Our Relations: Reflection on Women, Nature and Science, ”E. Allison, W. Bauman, and K. Worthy, eds., After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations, Routledge, 2018.
- “Philosophical Foundations for Systems Research ”,in M. Edson, et al, ed., A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy, Processes and Practice, Springer 2016.
- “Systems Theory and Practice in Organizational Change and Development,”in D. Arnold, ed., Traditions of Systems Theory: Major Figures and Contemporary Developments, Routledge, 2014.
- “Reflections on Recursion and the Evolution of Learning”,Kybernetes 42:9, 2013.
- “Systems Theory”,Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Sage Publications, 2013.
- “Education for Engaged Citizenship”in J.P. van Gigch, ed., Wisdom, Knowledge, and Management: A Critique and Analysis of Churchman's Systems Approach Series: C. West Churchman's Legacy and Related Works, Vol. 2 (New York: Springer, 2006).
- “The Life and Work of James Grier Miller”” (primary author, with Jennifer Wilby), Systems Research and Behavioral Science 23 (2006).
- “Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Systems Thinking,” ”tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-operation, Vol 3, No 2 (2005). On-line.
- “Ecopsychology,”in S. Krech, J.R. McNeill, and C. Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (New York: Routledge, 2004).
- “Exploring the Genealogy of Systems Thinking,”Systems Research and Behavioral Science 19 (2002).
- “From Dominion to Co-Creation: A New Vision of Reality beyond the Boundaries of the Mechanistic Universe”ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation 21:4 (1999).
- “Reflections on the Role of Dialogue in Education and Community Building,”Systems Research and Behavioral Science 21 (Bela H. Banathy Festschrift, 2004).
- “Ecopsychology,”in S. Krech, J.R. McNeill, and C. Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (New York: Routledge, 2004).