Description: Regardless of where you enter the discussion of Freedom there is an underlying matrix of moral and value connections that link any domain of social activity with all others. Although billed as an "abstract philosophical discussion," it is fundamentally important for all of us to get a handle on how these connections work.
Brief description: Peter Friesen received his Bachelor of Arts from Williams College in 1978, majoring in Philosophy. He continued to pursue his philosophical interests in Public Administration at the University of Southern California, and a Juris Doctorate at the University of California, Hastings, awarded in 1982. While a student at the University of Southern California he studied with Elliot Jaques and played a major role in the development of the first logical descriptors for cognitive development utilizing an information processing model.
Review Quotes: On Freedom: Organizational Science Examined Philosophically is a sweeping multi-disciplinary treatise on human nature. In an era marked by the creation of progressively more specialized knowledge, Friesen is an integrative thinker who leaps over, burrows under and smashes through disciplinary boundaries in order to articulate a unity which lies hidden within the apparent diversity of human experience. On Freedom is a generative work which creates a context for the creation of new knowledge in multiples fields. It will take us decades to work out the implications of this work for the social sciences. -Akash Mittal, Manager, Total Rewards, Toyota Canada Inc. Friesen's work is a tours de force in philosophically explaining the implications of multi-modal cognitive and linguistic expression based on replicable, empirical evidence. This unique synthesis provides policy makers and organization managers an enhanced practical understanding for making ethical choices in designing cooperative systems based on a true organization science! -Maurice Bisheff, Ph.D. teaches in the Tseng MPA Program, California State University, Northridge Friesen leads the reader to an understanding that regardless of where you enter the discussion of Freedom there is an underlying matrix of moral and value connections that link any domain of social activity with all others. Somewhere in the discussion I began to understand that athough this is billed as an "abstract philosophical discussion," it feels fundamentally important for all of us to get a handle on how these connections work. -David M. Boals, Ph.D. currently serves on the Headquarters Strategic Planning team and on the Metrics peer review group for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers