Epistemological Foundations of a Critical Systems Approach for Social Planners: From "Critical Rationalism" and "Critical Theory" to "Critical Heuristics"
Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley (
1980)
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Abstract
This study outlines a new, "critically-heuristic" approach to the unsolved problem of practical reason as the social planner faces it, the problem of how we can rationally identify and justify the normative implications of planning. Contemporary systems approaches to plann