Changing paradigms in the information society: From analysis to systems thinking

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Bigirimana, Stanislas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Dynamic and integrative epistemology; Information society; Process philosophy; System practice; System thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961234296     PISSN: 18331882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18848/1833-1882/CGP/v05i11/51846     Document Type: Article

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2. Concerning the functioning of the thermostat as a system that constantly interacts with ist environment see Fred Drestke, Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes (Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press, 1988).
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10. Piaget, p. 28.
11. " And yet, when we think of cybernetic models, which are, so far, the only ones throwing any light on the nature of autoregularatory mechanisms, we notice at once that they all bring some sort of logic into play (or at least some sort of binary arithmetic, which amounts to the same thing. Moreover, the essential function of logical operations, if they are to function and in a living way, is to set up systems of control and autocorrection. " Piaget p. 28.
12. See for instance, Jaegwon Kim, "Mental Causation" in Brian McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann & Sven Walter, (ed) Philosophy of Mind (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010), p. 30.
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17. See for instance Nicholas Rescher, Complexity: A Philosophical Overview (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998), p. 25 ff.
18. See for instance Florian Scheck, Mechanics: from Newton's laws to deterministic chaos (New York: Springer, 1999), p. 2
19. Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers, Order out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Toronto: Bentam Books, 1984), p. 8.
20. Bertalanffy, p. viii.