Systems : : New Paradigms for the Human Sciences / / ed. by Gabriel Altmann, Walter A. Koch.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
©1998
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (781 p.) :; Num. figs.
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Prefatory note
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • I. General
  • Evolving complexity in social science
  • Evolutionary modelling
  • Can we apply synergetics to the human sciences?
  • From crisp systems to fuzzy systems
  • Systems and societies: The logic of sociocultural evolution
  • Systems-theoretical approach to the concept of organization
  • No system can be improved in all respects
  • The plurality of systems, and the unity of the world
  • Systems ideology in human and social sciences
  • Systems theory and the evolution of science
  • Emerging systems
  • II. Semiotics
  • Semiotic systems
  • Inquiries into semiotic principles and systems
  • Constructive contradictions
  • III. Knowledge and cognition
  • Gödelian aspects of nature and knowledge
  • Cognitive systems theory
  • IV. Culture
  • Concept of the 'Second Reality' from the perspective of an empirical systems theory on the basis of radical constructivism
  • Self-organization of culture
  • V. Music
  • Systemic organization and the development of the European musical language
  • A systems theoretical approach to language and music
  • VI. Language
  • On the nature of tension in dialectal networks
  • Hurst's indicators and text
  • A note on language competences as dynamic systems
  • Chaos, fractals and dissipative structures in language
  • VII. Literature
  • Fractopoi, chaosmos, or merely simplexity-complicity?
  • A systems-oriented approach to literary studies
  • VIII. In lieu of an EPILOGUE
  • Systems and the human sciences
  • Index of names
  • Index of subjects
  • The authors