{"product_id":"critical-heuristics-of-social-planning-9780471953456","title":"Critical Heuristics of Social Planning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCritical Heuristics of Social Planning has been recognised as the seminal work on critical systems thinking. Ulrich offers a new approach both to practical philosophy (which has until now remained rather unpractical) and to systems thinking (which has reduced the systems idea to a tool of merely instrumental, rather than practical, reason). Critical systems heuristics (CSH), as the approach is now generally called, provides planners, practitioners and policy makers with a conceptual tool for practising practical reason. It will enable them to identify and discuss systematically the value implications of policies, plans, problem definitions, or program evaluations. In addition, the book offers the most thorough-going introduction available today to the espistemological foundations of critical systems thinking, including a practicable model of cogent argumentation on disputed value implications of designs. A must for practitioners and scholars who are interested in a self-critical and pr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTEMPORARY MODELS OF RATIONAL DISCOURSE.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Karl R. Popper's Critical Rationalism: Blind Criticism?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Jurgen Habermas' Critical Theory: Toward a TransformedTranscendental Approach.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e FROM KANTIAN A PRIORI SCIENCE TO CRITICAL HEURISTICS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Kantian A Priori Science.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Kantian A Priori Science and the Systems Idea: TheCritically-Heuristic Turn.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Kantian A Priori Science and the Process of Unfolding: TheDialectical Turn.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e APPLICATION.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Toward a \"Purposeful Systems\" Paradigm of Planning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Project Cybersyn: The Chilean Experience with Cybernetics,1971-73.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Health Systems Planning: The Case of the 1976 Areawide HealthSystems Plan for Central Puget Sound.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Indexes.","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864653443415,"sku":"9780471953456","price":115.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780471953456.jpg?v=1722272913","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-heuristics-of-social-planning-9780471953456","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}