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
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...
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He is known as a promoter of
systems theory
Systems theory is the interdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or human-made. Every system has causal boundaries, is influenced by its context, defined by its structu ...
in Russia.
[Biggart, John, Peter Dudley, and Francis King. ''Alexander Bogdanov and the origins of systems thinking in Russia.'' Avebury, 1998.]
Selected publications
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Blauberg, Igor, Viktorovich, V. N. Sadovsky, and
E. G. Yudin. ''Systems theory: Philosophical and methodological problems.'' Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977.
* Vadim N. Sadovsky and
Stuart A. Umpleby
Stuart Anspach Umpleby (born March 5, 1944) is an American cybernetician and professor in the Department of Management and Director of the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning in the School of Business at the George Washington Un ...
(ed.). ''A Science of goal formulation : American and Soviet discussions of cybernetics and systems theory.'' New York, Hemisphere Pub. Corp., 1991.
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Bogdanov, Aleksandr, and Vadim N. Sadovsky. ''Bogdanov's Tektology. University of Hull,'' Centre for Systems Studies, 1996.
;Articles, a selection
* Sadovsky, V. N. "Foundations of general systems theory." ''М.: Sov. Radio'' (1974).
* Blauberg, I. V., V. N. Sadovskii, and B. G. Iudin. "Philosophical Principles of Systemicity and the Systems Approach." ''Soviet Studies in Philosophy'' 17.4 (1979): 44–68.
References
1934 births
2012 deaths
Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Systems scientists
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