Year
1999
Abstract
Building on two examples (how to distribute camels to the owner’s sons, how circular cross-roads regulate traffic), the author stresses the opposition between Comte’s positivist tradition (end of History, triumph of positive sciences, neutrality of the observer-scientist, optimization models, closed decision-making systems) and heterodox Jean-Louis Le Moigne’s work, which focuses on inquiry procedures, heuristic nature of models, open systems and knowledge/action integration.
LORINO, P. (1999). Le sens giratoire et le chameau. Dans: Entre systémique et complexité, chemin faisant… 1st ed. PUF, pp. 147-157.