Third way architecture: Between cybernetics and phenomenology

A Third Way Between Hard and Soft Methodologies

This paper examines the two extremes of hard and soft systems methodologies and discusses the merits of each approach. It then suggests how the better attributes of the two approaches can be realised with a third way combining the elements of both. The advent of more powerful computing technologies allows a more broadly based approach to decision processes than a strict algorithmic one. Areas o...

A Third Way for Health Policy?

Economics has hit the mainstream in the last decade with popular books like Freakonomics and The Undercover Economist reaching the masses. These authors have used their toolkits far beyond the narrow scope of money and finance and answered questions pertaining to anything from social policy to demographics to crime. Their appeal has largely been their ability to explain that small underlying fo...

Between Phenomenology and Neuroscience

It would seem reasonable to expect any comprehensive account of consciousness to accommodate two of its most fundamental attributes: that we have a selfcentred sense of experience and that this sense is somehow linked to the condition of our physiology. Yet those conversant with post-Cartesian philosophy will know that time and again significant doubts have been raised about any apparently obvi...

Third Way Movements

Correlates and phenomenology of first and third person memories.

The present research addressed fundamental questions about the visual perspective of autobiographical memories: Are stable personality characteristics associated with visual perspective? Does visual perspective influence the memory's phenomenological qualities? Participants in Study 1 (N=1684) completed individual-difference measures and indicated the perspective from which they generally retri...