WE LIKE BIG BOOKS AND WE CANNOT LIE (27 September 2023)

Description

Someone asked us to do an episode on books that shifted our thinking. So here we are and we each brought two books that changed the way we look at the world when we read them. We discuss these books and what new things they told us. And of course, it’s turning into a showoff about who remembers more from these books. And suffice to say: Jan loses this battle.

Episode Reading List

  • Anonymous. The juiciest Information Systems memes. @rigorous_is_memes on Instagram.
  • Chalmers, A. F. (1999). What Is This Thing Called Science? (3rd ed.). Hackett.
  • Popper, K. R. (1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Basic Books.
  • Feyerabend, P. (2010). Against Method (4th ed.). Verso Books.
  • Lakatos, I. (1976). Proofs and Refutations. Cambridge University Press.
  • Kuhn, T. S. (1996). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (3rd ed.). University of Chicago Press.
  • Recker, J. (2014). Suggestions for the Next Wave of BPM Research: Strengthening the Theoretical Core and Exploring the Protective Belt. Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application, 15(2), 5-20.
  • Mendling, J., Berente, N., Seidel, S., & Grisold, T. (2021). Pluralism and Pragmatism in the Information Systems Field: The Case of Research on Business Processes and Organizational Routines. ACM SIGMIS Database, 52(2), 127-140.
  • Treiblmaier, H. (2018). Paul Feyerabend and the Art of Epistemological Anarchy – A Discussion of the Basic Tenets of Against Method and an Assessment of Their Potential Usefulness for the Information Systems Field. ACM SIGMIS Database, 49(2), 93-101.
  • Ackoff, R. L. (1967). Management Misinformation Systems. Management Science, 14(4), 146-156.
  • Ackoff, R. L. (1971). Towards a System of System Concepts. Management Science, 17(11), 611-622.
  • Churchman, C. W. (1972). The Design of Inquiring Systems: Basic Concepts of Systems and Organization. Basic Books.
  • Berger, P. L., & Luckmann, T. (1966). The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Doubleday.
  • Simon, H. A. (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial (3rd ed.). MIT Press.

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