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Critical complexity : collected essays /
Contemporary theories on complex adaptive systems stem from a natural science perspective. Paul Cilliers was one of the first complexity thinkers to translate the theoretical concepts into a qualitative and normative understanding of complexity. This collected volume of essays consolidates his later...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Categories (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1: Single-authored Papers. Theme 1: Characterising Complexity
- The brain, the mental apparatus and the text
- Rules and relations
- Rules and complex systems
- What can we learn from a theory of complexity?
- Knowledge, complexity and understanding
- Boundaries, hierarchies and networks in complex systems
- Why we cannot know complex things completely
- Knowledge, limits and boundaries
- Part 1: Single-authored Papers. Theme 2: Complexity and Philosophy
- Postmodern knowledge and complexity (or why anything does not go)
- Complexity, deconstruction and relativism
- On Derrida and apartheid
- Justice, law and philosophy
- Complexity, ethics and justice
- Part 1: Single-authored Papers. Theme 3: Implications of Complexity Thinking
- Difference, identity and complexity
- Complexity and philosophy
- Part 2: Posthumous after 2011. Theme 1: Critical Complexity
- Deconstruction and complexity
- Towards an economy of complexity
- The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics
- Author Index.