sorry, I was more thinking in Messick's (1975) "The Standard Problem: Meaning and Values in Measurement and Evaluation" in American Psychologist.
... (The conduct of Inquiry) for making a number of points (including values in science) and he cites Churchman as well on the latter.
Hi, So, reading on psychological measurement, I realized that pragmatist philosopher of science A Kaplan influenced quite a bit a couple of important psychometricians. One is Samuel Messick. In his "Test Validity and the Ethics of Assessment" (1980 in AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST) he cites Kaplan ...
yes, the obituary tells the story. They actually tried that before at U Penn (failing)
Last one: What got me really curious is that Churchman's work on system thinking gets cited in a paper on psychological measurement as providing clues for how to work out implicit value-judgments made in science! we got the full circle there. Let me know if interested in these texts.
Have you read "Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940–1960" by William Thomas? It seems he tells a story that includes these two people.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
C(harles) West Churchman, the grand old man of the ‘systems approach’, has passed away. Born on 29 August 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was 90 years of age. After a rich and significant life ...
Just today I read an obituary of C W Churchman (his PhD advisor) in which all made a lot of sense tbh
great paper, congrats Philipp!
Congrats Andrew!