David Rousseau

{{Short description|British systems philosopher}}

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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),Y. Shim and D. C. Bellomy, ‘Thinking and Acting Systematically About the Anthropocene’, Systemic Practice and Action Research, Jan. 2018.R. Dekkers, ‘Applications of System Theories’, in Applied Systems Theory, R. Dekkers, Ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 269–299.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. for promoting systems philosophy as a route to advances in GST,E. Laszlo, ‘Information and Coherence in Nature; – and the Cancer of Human-World Incoherence’, Systema, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 4–10, 2014. for contributions on scientific general systems principlesR. Dekkers, ‘Applications of System Theories’, in Applied Systems Theory, R. Dekkers, Ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 269–299.A. Malecic, ‘Footprints of general systems theory’, in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the ISSS-2016, Boulder, CO, USA, 2018. and for advocating systems research as a route to a scientific understanding of spiritual and other exceptional human experiences.P. Fenwick, ‘End-of-Life Experiences: A Spiritual Perspective’, International Journal of Ethics, vol. 9, no. 3, 2013.S. G. Tzafestas, Systems, Cybernetics, Control, and Automation. River Publishers, 2017. His research interests include systems philosophy,D. Rousseau, 'Systems Philosophy and the Unity of Knowledge', Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 31(2) pp. 146-159, 2014 systems science,D. Rousseau, 'General Systems Theory: Present and Potential',Systems Research and Behavioural Science, 32(5), 522–533, 2015. systems engineering,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. systems methods for exploratory research,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 the mind-body problem,D. Rousseau, Near-Death Experiences and the Mind-Body Relationship: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective', Journal of Near-Death Studies, 29, pp. 399-435, 2011. and the ontological foundations of moral intuitions.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.