David Rousseau

Short description: British systems philosopher

David Rousseau (born 1960) is a British systems philosopher, Director of the Centre for Systems Philosophy, former chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), a Past President of the ISSS (2017-2018), and the Company Secretary of the British Association for the Study of Spirituality. He is known for having revived interest in establishing a scientific general systems theory (GST),[1][2][3] for promoting systems philosophy as a route to advances in GST,[4] for contributions on scientific general systems principles[5][6] and for advocating systems research as a route to a scientific understanding of spiritual and other exceptional human experiences.[7][8] His research interests include systems philosophy,[9] systems science,[10] systems engineering,[11] systems methods for exploratory research,[12] the mind-body problem,[13] and the ontological foundations of moral intuitions.[14]

## References

1. ↑ Y. Shim and D. C. Bellomy, ‘Thinking and Acting Systematically About the Anthropocene’, Systemic Practice and Action Research, Jan. 2018.
2. ↑ R. Dekkers, ‘Applications of System Theories’, in Applied Systems Theory, R. Dekkers, Ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 269–299.
3. ↑ J. J. Kineman, ‘Systems Research Framework’, in A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy, Processes and Practice, M. C. Edson, P. Buckle Henning, and S. Sankaran, Eds. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017, pp. 21–57.
4. ↑ E. Laszlo, ‘Information and Coherence in Nature; – and the Cancer of Human-World Incoherence’, Systema, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 4–10, 2014.
5. ↑ R. Dekkers, ‘Applications of System Theories’, in Applied Systems Theory, R. Dekkers, Ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 269–299.
6. ↑ A. Malecic, ‘Footprints of general systems theory’, in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the ISSS-2016, Boulder, CO, USA, 2018.
7. ↑ P. Fenwick, ‘End-of-Life Experiences: A Spiritual Perspective’, International Journal of Ethics, vol. 9, no. 3, 2013.
8. ↑ S. G. Tzafestas, Systems, Cybernetics, Control, and Automation. River Publishers, 2017.
9. ↑ D. Rousseau, 'Systems Philosophy and the Unity of Knowledge', Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 31(2) pp. 146-159, 2014
10. ↑ D. Rousseau, 'General Systems Theory: Present and Potential',Systems Research and Behavioural Science, 32(5), 522–533, 2015.
11. ↑ D. Rousseau, 'A Framework for Understanding Systems Principles and Methods', Proceedings of the 2018 International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering", Washington, DC, USA, 7–12 July 2018", 2018.
12. ↑ D. Rousseau, J. Wilby, J. Billingham, and S. Blachfellner, 'The Potential of General Systemology as a Transdiscipline', in "General Systemology", pp. 47-62. Springer, Singapore, 2018
13. ↑ D. Rousseau, Near-Death Experiences and the Mind-Body Relationship: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective', Journal of Near-Death Studies, 29, pp. 399-435, 2011.
14. ↑ D. Rousseau, 'Reconciling Spirituality with the Natural Sciences: A Systems-Philosophical Perspective', Journal for the Study of Spirituality, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 174-189, 2014.

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