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might be the father of the American clinical psychology movement, is certainly a progenitor of the Internet, and was a compassionate, practicing physician throughout his life. Along the way, he advised the upper echelons of governments, administered programmes that defined future courses of events, and moulded educational institutions and disciplines of thought. With this tributary volume, however, we honour Dr. Miller's contribution to systems science and the systems movement in general. In particular, we salute his living systems theory (LST). A great deal of attention is being given currently to the role of collective thought in human evolution. While that is an important aspect, we should not believe that the extensive knowledge of humankind advances without regard to individual thinkers. Every idea, in the final analysis, is conceived in the mind of a person. When a great thinker falls, the cosmos of human thought takes notice. James Grier Miller was such a thinker. Miller was a man of ideas, but he was more. He was an artisan of ideas, and the ideas that he crafted with his own were ideas belonging to persons. I believe, he never contemplated ideas without regard to whose ide

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Author

G. A. Swanson

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Decision Sciences (Social Sciences)