Background
Ulrich, Werner Jurg was born on May 29, 1948 in Bern, Switzerland. Son of Hans Martin Ulrich and Sonja Furrer.
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Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy by Ulrich, Werner (1995) Paperback
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Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy
(Critical Heuristics of Social Planning has been recognise...)
Critical Heuristics of Social Planning has been recognised as the seminal work on critical systems thinking. Ulrich offers a new approach both to practical philosophy (which has until now remained rather unpractical) and to systems thinking (which has reduced the systems idea to a tool of merely instrumental, rather than practical, reason). Critical systems heuristics (CSH), as the approach is now generally called, provides planners, practitioners and policy makers with a conceptual tool for practising practical reason. It will enable them to identify and discuss systematically the value implications of policies, plans, problem definitions, or program evaluations. In addition, the book offers the most thorough-going introduction available today to the espistemological foundations of critical systems thinking, including a practicable model of cogent argumentation on disputed value implications of designs. A must for practitioners and scholars who are interested in a self-critical and practicable understanding of the widespread call for holistic or systems thinking! "Critical Heuristics will be recognised as a very important book in the emerging systems discipline and will hold a significant position for many years to come". Peter B. Checkland, University of Lancaster, England. "An outstanding contribution to an adequate philosophical and heuristic framework for critical social inquiry and design". C. West Churchman, University of California, Berkeley, USA. "The book fills a major gap in the literature on the systems tradition". Michael C. Jackson, University of Hull, England. "Drawing on a profound knowledge of both Anglo American systems theory and German practical philosophy, this book belongs to the best studies I have seen on the normative foundations of planning and systems design." Horst Steinmann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. "Mandatory for libraries in the field of planning". John Friedmann, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
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Werner Jurg Ulrich
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Werner Jurg Ulrich, Swiss political scientist, educator. Research scholar, Swiss National Science Foundation, 1976-1977, Advanced Research scholar, 1977-1980, Honorary Senior fellow, School Management, University Hull, 1989-1992, Erskine Science Prestige fellow, University Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1999.
Education
Lic.rer.pol., University Fribourg, Switzerland, 1971. Doctor of Economics and Social Sciences, University Fribourg, Switzerland, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1980.
Career
Head office evaluation research Department Public Health and Social Welfare, Bern, 1981—1997. Visiting lecturer evaluation research and social planning University Fribourg, 1986—1995, titular professor social planning, 1995—2000. Visiting research professor critical systems thinking University Hull, England, 1995—1996, University Lincoln, England, 1997—2000.
Director Lugano Summer School Systems Design University Italian Switzerland, Lugano, since 2001. Science co-director Swiss national poverty study Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, 1991—1996. Visiting lecturer and course director continuing education in ecology Universities Bern and Fribourg, Switzerland, 1992—1996.
Director poverty study Canton, Bern, Switzerland, 1987—1994.
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Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy
(Critical Heuristics of Social Planning has been recognise...)
- Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy by Ulrich, Werner (1995) Paperback
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Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy
Connections
Married Maria Vergara, December 30, 1993. Married Thérèse Navard, February 21, 1976. 1 child Dominik Paul.
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Nationality
Swiss
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1971
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1975
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1980
Career
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1981 - 1997
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1995 - 1996
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1997
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2001
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Research scholar, Swiss National Science Foundation, 1976-1977, Advanced Research scholar, 1977-1980, Honorary Senior fellow, School Management, University Hull, 1989-1992, Erskine Science Prestige fellow, University Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1999.Research scholar, Swiss National Science Foundation, 1976-1977, Advanced Research scholar, 1977-1980, Honorary Senior fellow, School Management, University Hull, 1989-1992, Erskine Science Prestige fellow, University Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1999.