David Rousseau (born 1960) is a British systems philosopher, Director of the Centre for Systems Philosophy, former chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), a Past President of the ISSS (2017-2018), and the Company Secretary of the British Association for the Study of Spirituality. He is known for having revived interest in establishing a scientific general systems theory (GST), [1] [2] [3] for promoting systems philosophy as a route to advances in GST, [4] for contributions on scientific general systems principles [5] [6] and for advocating systems research as a route to a scientific understanding of spiritual and other exceptional human experiences. [7] [8] His research interests include systems philosophy, [9] systems science, [10] systems engineering, [11] systems methods for exploratory research, [12] the mind-body problem, [13] and the ontological foundations of moral intuitions. [14]
David Rousseau (born 1960) is a British systems philosopher, Director of the Centre for Systems Philosophy, former chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), a Past President of the ISSS (2017-2018), and the Company Secretary of the British Association for the Study of Spirituality. He is known for having revived interest in establishing a scientific general systems theory (GST), [1] [2] [3] for promoting systems philosophy as a route to advances in GST, [4] for contributions on scientific general systems principles [5] [6] and for advocating systems research as a route to a scientific understanding of spiritual and other exceptional human experiences. [7] [8] His research interests include systems philosophy, [9] systems science, [10] systems engineering, [11] systems methods for exploratory research, [12] the mind-body problem, [13] and the ontological foundations of moral intuitions. [14]