The Challenge of Complexity: Essays by Edgar Morin, Amy Heath-Carpentier

Автор: Houle Karen L.
Название: Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought
ISBN: 0739136712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739136713
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Описание: Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the experience of unwanted pregnancy.

Автор: Rika Preiser
Название: Critical Complexity: Collected Essays
ISBN: 1501510797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501510793
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Описание: This book is a collection of all the single authored essays by Paul Cilliers, published between 1990-2011. Being one of few authors who approached the study of complexity from a philosophical perspective, the main themes in these papers explore:- Qualitative characterization of complexity and the normative implications of studying complex adaptive systems,- the philosophical and conceptual similarity to post-structural approaches- how any engagement with complexity leads to a critical engagement with how we do science and design interventions- critical and normative implications for how to engage with complex socio-political concerns in the world. What makes this book unique is that it consolidates a body of work that is distributed over a wide range of academic journals. Although his book "Complexity and Postmodernism" (Routledge, 1998) remains a cornerstone in the field of complexity studies, Cilliers’ journal essays really explore the application of the theoretical concepts in more depth. His ground-breaking ideas conceptualized in these essays have served as a continual source of novelty and inspiration in the process of applying complexity thinking to other fields of study.

Автор: Myrna Estep
Название: Self-Organizing Natural Intelligence
ISBN: 9400790562 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400790568
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Описание: This book brings new scientific methods to intelligence research that is still under the influence of 19th century single causal theory and method.

Автор: George E. Yoos
Название: Simplifying Complexity: Rhetoric and the Social Politics of Dealing with Ignorance
ISBN: 3110450569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110450569
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Описание: Simplifying complexity explores how to eliminate ignorance, which in the view of the author, is the purpose of the sciences and technologies and their consequent developments. More specifically, the book deals with the plurality of the sciences and technologies. It is about the way in which each of them develops around the prosthetics of printed languages and the models used as visual aids to help us create new modes of communication to understand and solve human problems. Consequently, the task is to simplify the complexity that we find in different sciences, both social and physical. In his collection of essays, George E. Yoos surveys a number of different models that have evolved from the innate, biological forms of grammar, logic, and modes of orientation. He investigates the evolution of socially constructed systems of numeracy and measurement that have evolved and developed in different languages for the use in scientific and technological communication. He identifies methods derived from three distinct personal experiences: the use of types of prosthetic, mnemonic, and attention controlling devices, in order to yield simpler perspectives of complex states of affairs. George E. Yoos, emeritus professor, is a legend in the field of rhetoric. Founder and editor of the Rhetoric Society Quarterly [1972-1985], author of Reframing Rhetoric [2007], Politics and Rhetoric [2009], and fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America.

Автор: Houle Karen L. F.
Название: Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought
ISBN: 0739136720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739136720
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Описание: Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the experience of unwanted pregnancy.

Автор: Wyatt Moss-Wellington
Название: Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film
ISBN: 1474454313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474454315
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Описание: This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and questioning the ethics and efficacy of attempts to represent human social complexity in fiction.

With case studies of films like Parenthood (1989), American Beauty (1999), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and The Kids Are All Right (2010), this original study synthesises leading discourses on media and cognition, evolutionary anthropology, literature and film analysis into a new theory of the storytelling instinct.

Автор: Ulrich G?hde, Stephan Hartmann, J?rn Henning Wolf
Название: Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity
ISBN: 311031360X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110313604
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Описание: Modern science is, to a large extent, a model-building activity. But how are models contructed? How are they related to theories and data? How do they explain complex scientific phenomena, and which role do computer simulations play here? These questions have kept philosophers of science busy for many years, and much work has been done to identify modeling as the central activity of theoretical science. At the same time, these questions have been addressed by methodologically-minded scientists, albeit from a different point of view. While philosophers typically have an eye on general aspects of scientific modeling, scientists typically take their own science as the starting point and are often more concerned with specific methodological problems. There is, however, also much common ground in middle, where philosophers and scientists can engage in a productive dialogue, as the present volume demonstrates. To do so, the editors of this volume have invited eight leading scientists from cosmology, climate science, social science, chemical engeneering and neuroscience to reflect upon their modeling work, and eight philosophers of science to provide a commentary.

Автор: Gunnar Scott Reinbacher, Ole Preben Riis, Jorg Zeller
Название: Challenge of Complexity
ISBN: 8771120971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788771120974
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Описание: In a metaphorical sense a thing is complex if it comprehends a magnitude of homogeneous or different things. However, it depends on the kind of comprehension, if we conceive something that consists of many things as complex or not. It is perhaps most distinctive for complex phenomena that their properties and behaviour are not reducible to the properties and behaviour of their elements. This poses some challenging metaphysical problems. The articles in this anthology do not follow a leitmotif -- aside from that all of them have a look at complexity problems in different areas of scientific research and show in which ways the challenges of complexity can be answered.

Автор: Minka Woermann
Название: On the (Im)Possibility of Business Ethics
ISBN: 9400794800 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400794801
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Описание: A central premise of this book is that a postmodern reading of ethics represents an expression of, and engagement with, the ethical complexities that define the business landscape. Discusses such concepts as responsible leadership and corporate responsibility.

Автор: Bordag, Michael (center Of Theoretical Studies And Institute For Theoretical Physics, Leipzig University, Germany) Klimchitskaya, Galina Leonidovna (d
Название: Waging war on complexity costs: reshape your cost structure, free up cash flows and boost productivity by attacking process, product and organizational complexity
ISBN: 0470591714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780470591710
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Описание: People are challenged with ethical questions on a daily basis and students often wrestle with such questions as part of an introductory philosophy or ethics course. Whether or not they know Aristotle from Hume, readers of Ethics For Dummies can quickly become comfortable with the centuries-old study of ethical philosophy.

Автор: Wessling
Название: What a Coincidence!
ISBN: 3658406704 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783658406707
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Описание: How does chance enter our world? And why is so much not predictable? In an understandable, exciting and amusing narrative, the author takes us into the world of chemistry, quantum physics and biology. Touching on astronomy and philosophy, we witness a rewarding journey of discovery. In the process, he develops a completely new view of chance based on the laws of nature. Here, the omnipresent non-equilibrium plays an extremely decisive role, because it generates the complex structures in our world. Finally, on this basis, he presents an equally simple and captivating hypothesis on the nature of time. This non-fiction book provides a deep insight into the fascination of research, the agonizing search for fundamental understanding, and the struggle for scientific knowledge.

Автор: A. Carsetti
Название: Causality, Meaningful Complexity and Embodied Cognition
ISBN: 9048135281 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048135288
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Описание: Arturo Carsetti According to molecular Biology, true invariance (life) can exist only within the framework of ongoing autonomous morphogenesis and vice versa. With respect to this secret dialectics, life and cognition appear as indissolubly interlinked. In this sense, for instance, the inner articulation of conceptual spaces appears to be linked to an inner functional development based on a continuous activity of selection and anchorage realised on semantic grounds. It is the work of invention and g- eration (in invariance), linked with the rooting of meaning, which determines the evolution, the leaps and punctuated equilibria, the conditions related to the unfo- ing of new modalities of invariance, an invariance which is never simple repetition and which springs on each occasion through deep-level processes of renewal and recovery. The selection perpetrated by meaning reveals its autonomy aboveall in its underpinning, in an objective way, the ongoing choice of these new modalities. As such it is not, then, concerned only with the game of possibles, offering itself as a simple channel for pure chance, but with providing a channel for the articulation of the le in the humus of a semantic (and embodied) net in order to prepare the necessary conditionsfor a continuousrenewal and recoveryof original creativity. In effect, it is this autonomy in inventing new possible modules of incompressibility whichdeterminestheactualemergenceofnew(andtrue)creativity, whichalsotakes place through the narration of the effected construction."