Overcoming divides

On the Horizon

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-14

  Poli, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Causation; Forward planning; Futures studies; Latents; Levels of reality; Nicolai Hartmann; Parts and wholes; Robert Rosen; The multiplicity of times; The thick present; World economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873045278     PISSN: 10748121     EISSN: 20541708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10748121311297021     Document Type: Article

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