The management of science and the mismanagement of the world |
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| Authors: | C West Churchman Ian I Mitroff |
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| Institution: | (1) Graduate School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, California;(2) University of Southern California Center for Crisis Management, Graduate School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California |
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| Abstract: | The truth of a scientific proposition, finding, or an abstract ethical principle is not a static property inherent in it.
Truth happens as the result of the management of human affairs. It becomes true, is discovered and made true by actions. Its
verity is in fact a series of actions, a process: the process of its implementation. Its validity is gained through what may
generally be called “the management of truth: (C. West Churchman and Ian I. Mitroff).
... The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true
by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its verification. Its validity
is the process of its validation.
William James
This paper will also appear in the volumeThe Experimenting Society: Policy Essays in Honor of Donald T. Campbell. New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Publishers, 1994 (in press). |
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