Jean-Louis Le Moigne

Jean-Louis Le Moigne is a French specialist on systemics and constructivist epistemology. He is an alumnus from Ecole Centrale Paris.

Biography

Jean-Louis Le Moigne was born on March 22, 1931 in Casablanca (Marocco). He is married to Maguy Le Moigne, and they have 3 children.
* ECP (École centrale Paris) Engineer (1955). Diplomas at ITP Harvard Business School and Sloan School of Management MIT (1970-71).
* Industrial Career 1959-1971: Shell Group France: lubricant development; operational research; Informational Organization; Central Planning; Director of South-West Region, Logistics.
* Professor (1971-1997), later Emeritus Professor of Universities, (systems science, engineering of organizations science, ...), at l'Université d'Aix-Marseille III in Aix-en-Provence, France.
* Co-founder, in 1975, and later director (1988-1997) of GRASCE (Research Group on the Adaptation, the Systems, and the Complexity of the Economy), associated to the CNRS since its origin.
* Since 1997, associated member of this Group henceforth integrated with GREQAM, UMR CNRS Marseilles.
* Member of committees which compiled several international scientific reviews (system, Information, Decision, Organization)

The biography that follows was realized from discussions that John louis The Moigne granted during the year 1998 as part of the preparation for the publication of its "Mix" (a collective work realized in his honor, to which big authors contributed — among which are: Herbert Simon, Edgar Morin, Ernst von Glasersfeld, P. Tabatoni, H. Bartoli — that was edited under the title "Between Systemic & Complexity: Trailblazing", to the P. U. F. in 1999).

John-Louis The Moigne was born on March 22, 1931 in Casablanca; he is the oldest child of three children. His father, Emile The Moigne, had embraced a career of engineering that had driven him to install himself in Morocco during some years in order to contribute there by realizing a hydraulic barrier that made him famous in the era and that was inaugurated after 1940. Emile was himself the son of a French police officer, of Breton origin and from the countryside, that had benefited from the "social promotion" that was authorized by the institutions of the third republic after the war of 1870 -- and who probably gave the name Emile to his son in reference to Émile Zola. Like a lot of military officers' sons, Emile The Moigne will follow his schooling in a military high School ("The Arrow") before entering the Naval school and would confront the war of 1914-1918 as a young naval officer. The war caused him some health problems that forced him to return himself then to civil life: The army therefore paid him a scholarship to Supélec, and it was as an electrical engineer that he was called to contribute to the electric industrialization of Morocco. Émile would meet the mother of John louis, the daughter of an officer, who participated during that time to the construction of the railroads of Morocco. Note to the reader: this maternal grandfather marked the small childhood of John louis: he was the seventh boy of a family of nine children -- that had emigrated from la Creuse(where his father was mason) towards the Nièvre where there was seemed to be more work... --

Bibliography

* "Les systèmes d’information dans les organisations", 1973, PUF.
* "Les systèmes de décision dans les organisations", 1974, PUF.
* (with D. Carré), "Auto-organisation de l’entreprise. 50 propositions pour l’autogestion", 1977, Les Éditions d’Organisation.
* [http://www.mcxapc.org/inserts/ouvrages/0609tsgtm.pdf"La théorie du système général. Théorie de la modélisation"] , 1977, PUF. Rééditions en 1986, 1990, 1994 and 2006 accessible as e-book ISBN 2130384838.
* "La modélisation des systèmes complexes", 1990, Éd. Dunod. Reedited en 1995.
* "Le constructivisme, t. 1 : Les fondements", 1994, Éd. ESF.
* "Le constructivisme, t. 2 : Des épistémologies", 1995, Éd. ESF.
* "Les épistémologies constructivistes", 1995, PUF, « Que sais-je ? ».
* (avec E. Morin), "Comprendre la complexité dans les organisations de soins", 1997, ASPEPS Éd.
* (avec E. Morin), "L'Intelligence de la Complexité", 1999, Éd. l'Harmattan.
* "Le Constructivisme, t. 1 : Les enracinements", 2002, Éd. l'Harmattan.
* "Le Constructivisme, t. 2 : Épistémologie de l’interdisciplinarité", 2003, Éd. l'Harmattan.
* "Le Constructivisme, t. 3 : Modéliser pour comprendre", 2003, Éd. l'Harmattan.

ee also

Internal links

* Constructivist epistemology

External links

* [http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/EvG/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?url=222.pdf "Le Moigne's Defense of Constructivism"] by Ernst von Glasersfeld
* [http://www.mcxapc.org/docs/ateliers/erikss1.pdf "A Principal Exposition of Jean-Louis Le Moigne’s Systemic Theory"] by Darek M. Eriksson