Deming’s Bookcase

These books were probably on Dr. Deming's bookshelf at some point. The deeper I dig into Dr. Deming’s management philosopy the more I find references to great minds born in the 19th century.

Henri Fayol’s, 1916, General and Industrial Management

Percy Bridgeman’s, 1927, The Logic of Modern Physics

Clarence Irving Lewis’. 1929, Mind and the World-Order

William Stanley Jevons, 1874, The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method

Ronald A. Fisher, Statistical Methods for Research Workers (London: 1925)

William James, The Principles of Psychology (New York: Holt, 1890)

Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind (London: Allen and Unwin, 1922)

Edward L. Thorndike, Human Learning (New York, Century, 1931).

J. Henri Poincare, Foundations of Science (New York: Science Press,
1929)

John Dewey, Quest for Certainty (New York: Balch, 1929)

Alfred N. Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: Macmillan, 1929)