Charles West Churchman

Charles West Churchman (Philadelphia, 29 augustus 1913 - Bolinas, 21 maart 2004) was een Amerikaans wetenschapper. Churchman was opgeleid als filosoof en werkzaam op het gebied van het operationeel onderzoek, de bedrijfskunde en de systeemtheorie.

Bibliografie

• 1938, Towards a General Logic of Propositions, Ph.D. Dissertation.
• 1940, Elements of Logic and Formal Science, J.B. Lippincott Co., New York.
• 1940, Euclid Vindicated of Every Blemish, Translator, Saccheri's.
• 1946, Psychologistics, with Russell L. Ackoff.
• 1948, Theory of Experimental Inference, Macmillan Publishers, New York.
• 1950, Methods of Inquiry: Introduction to Philosophy and Scientific Method, with Russell L. Ackoff, Educational Publications, St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri.
• 1956, Costs, Utilities, and Values, Sections I and II.
• 1957, Introduction to Operations Research, with Russell L. Ackoff & E.L. Arnoff, J. Wiley and Sons, New York.
• 1960, Prediction and Optimal Decision, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
• 1968, Challenge to Reason, McGraw-Hill, New York.
• 1968, The Systems Approach, Delacorte Press, New York.
• 1971, The Design of Inquiring Systems, Basic Concepts of Systems and Organizations, Basic Books, New York.
• 1975, Thinking for Decisions: Deductive Quantitative Methods, Science Research Associates, Chicago, Illinois.
• 1979, The Systems Approach and Its Enemies, Basic Books, New York.
• 1982, Thought and Wisdom; The Gaither Lectures, Intersystems Publications, Seaside, California.