Understanding Society

Image: detail from Family Portrait 2 1965  (Creative Commons license, Richard Rappaport) Herbert Simon made paradigm-changing con...

I am currently thinking about the topic of "organizational actors", and Margaret Gilbert's arguments about social actors a...

photo: Tianjin, China A group of philosophers of social science convened in Tianjin, China, at Nankai University in June to consider s...

Crucial to improving an organization's performance is being able to obtain honest and detailed assessments of its functioning, in no...

The topic of the organizational causes of technology failure comes up frequently in Understanding Society . The tragic crashes of two Bo...

image: Imre Lakatos My Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy was written between 1974 and 1977 and was accepted in 1977. The topic was M...