I work as a Systems and Software Engineer, but have had an active research life
outside academia working in subjects like Philosophy (especially Ontology), Systems
Theory, Systems and Software Engineering Foundations including Architectural Design and
Process Engineering. I have written several books which are made available here in a
printable form.
My original Ph.D. was in Sociology and Philosophy of Science at the London School of
Economics, University of London, UK with a dissertation presented in 1982 on "The
Structure of Theoretical Systems in relation to Emergence".
I was a student at the University of South Australia, Defence and Systems Institute doing
my second Ph.D. on the Foundations of Emergent Science and Engineering called
"Emergent Design". This Ph.D. was awarded Dec. 17, 2009. See Links for
hyperlink to dissertation in the University of South Australia ARROW repository
Some of these books are also available thru Scribd.com
You can see my answer to questions on Quora at http://www.quora.com/Kent-Palmer
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5298-4422
See http://kentpalmer.name
See also http://kdp.me
Philosophy
Systems Theory
Software Engineering
Dissertation Errata
