The limits of phenomenology: From behaviorism to drug testing and engineering design

Complexity

Volumn 21, Issue , 2016, Pages 181-189

  Bar Yam, Yaneer ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

behaviorism; information theory; methodology of science; phenomenology; scale of information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946045618     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.21730     Document Type: Article

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