Erik Grigorevich Yudin (1930 – 15 January 1976) was a Russian philosopher and

cybernetician A cyberneticist or a cybernetician is a person who practices cybernetics. Heinz von Foerster once told Stuart Umpleby that Norbert Wiener preferred the term "cybernetician" rather than "cyberneticist", perhaps because Wiener was a mathematician ...

. In 1956, Yudin, publicly denounced the

Russian invasion of Hungary The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 10 November 1956; hu, 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was a countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the Hunga ...

. His employment was termination, he was expelled from the Communist Party, and then arrested by the KGB and imprisoned. In March 1960, he was released from prison after numerous petitions from his parents. He then started to attended seminars of the

Moscow Methodological Group Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million re ...

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Georgy Shchedrovitsky Georgy Petrovich Shchedrovitsky (russian: Георгий Петрович Щедровицкий) (23 February 1929 – 3 February 1994) was a Russian philosopher and methodologist, public and cultural figure. The creator of the system-thinking me ...

. He participated in the development of activity theory. He was the first person to differentiate between activity as a “perspective” – which he calls an explanatory principle – and as an object of study.

Works

English: * ''Systems Theory: Philosophical and Methodological Problems''(1977), (with

Vadim Sadovsky Vadim Nikolayevitch Sadovsky (1934–2012) was a Russian professor and Chief of the Department for Philosophical and Sociological Problems of Systems Research, Institute for Systems Analysis, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is known as a ...

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Igor Blauberg Igor Viktorovich Blauberg (1928 – May 23, 1990) was a Soviet philosopher and cyberneticist. Blauberg was Head of Systems Approach and Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory of the Research Institute for Systems Studies in Moscow. He is known for hi ...

) Moscow: Progress Publishers * "Philosophical principles of systemicity and the systems approach," (1979) (with V. N. Sadovsky and Igor Blauberg) ''Soviet Studies in Philosophy'', Vol. XVII, No.4, 1979, pp. 46-68 Russian: * ''Sistemnyi podchod i princip dejatel´nosti'' (1978) (The systems approach and the principle of activity) Moscow: Nauka.

References

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