Sytse Strijbos (born 1944) is a Dutch academic, former lecturer of

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at the

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in Amsterdam and at

Potchefstroom University The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (abbreviated as PU for CHE) was a South African university located in Potchefstroom. Instruction was mainly in Afrikaans. In 2004, the university was merged with other institutions to ...

in South Africa, and chairman of the International Institute for Development and Ethics IIDE, known for his work on systems science.

Biography

Born in

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, Strijbos graduated in

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at the

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late 1960s. Later in his career he received his PhD in 1988 at the

in Amsterdam with a thesis entitled "Het technische wereldbeeld : een wijsgerig onderzoek van het systeemdenken" (The technological world-view: a philosophical study of systems thinking) under supervision of

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and

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. After his graduation in Delft, Strijbos worked as researcher at the

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for ten years. On invitation of Hendrik van Riessen, his former Professor in Delft who had moved to Amsterdam, he then joined the Faculty of Philosophy of the

in the Department of Systematic Philosophy and Philosophy of Culture. In 1979 he edited the proceedings of the Congress on Systems thinking and social problems held at the Vrije Universiteit. In the 1980s he moved to the Department of Socio-cultural Philosophy and Philosophy of History, where he worked on medical ethics In the 1990s he also lectured at the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) In the new millennium he lectured philosophy in the Christian studies of Science and Society program.Program Christian studies of Science and Society, in Vrije Universiteit Study Guides, 2006, 2009International relations > SAVUSA > News > News archive
, ''fsw.vu.nl''. 2009 He was also Professor at the Philosophy Department of North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa. In 2003 he founded and became the first director of the International Institute for Development and Ethics IIDE.

Selected publications

Books: * Strijbos, Sytse. ''Het technische wereldbeeld : een wijsgerig onderzoek van het systeemdenken'' Doctorate thesis Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1988. * Strijbos, Sytse, and Andrew Basden. ''In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology: Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems'' (Contemporary Systems Thinking). Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 2006. * From our side : emerging perspectives on development and ethics Articles, a selection: * Strijbos, S. "How can systems thinking help us in bridging the gap between science and wisdom?." ''Systems Practice'' 8.4 (1995): 361-376. * Polder, J. J., Hoogland, J., Jochemsen, H., & Strijbos, S. (1997). Profession, practice and profits: Competition in the core of health care system. ''Systems Research and Behavioral Science'', 14(6), 409-421. * Strijbos, Sytse, and

Carl Mitcham Carl Mitcham (born 1941) is a philosopher of engineering and technology, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines and Visiting International Professor of Philosophy of Technology at Renmin Univers ...

. "Art.''Systems and Systems Thinking''." Carl Mitcham (Hg.):''Encyclopedia of science, technology, and ethics'', Thomson Gale (2005): 1880-1884. * Strijbos, Sytse. "Ethics and the Systematic Character of Modern Technology." ''Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology'' 3.4 (2012): 160-169. * Strijbos S. 2010. "Systems thinking". In: ''The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity'', Frodeman R, Thompson KJ, Mitcham C. (eds.). Oxford University: Oxford; p. 453–470.

References

External links

International Institute for Development and Ethics (IIDE)
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