| Description |
xix, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Exploring complexity ; v. 1 |
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Exploring complexity ; v. 1
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| Contents |
Complexity and life / Fritjof Capra -- Ecology, a dialog between the quick and the dead / Robert E. Ulanowicz -- Complexity and environmental education / Carlos J. Delgado Díaz -- Key issues regarding the origin, nature, and evolution of complexity in nature : information as a central concept to understand biological organization / Alvaro Moreno & Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo -- Why we cannot know complex things completely / Paul Cilliers -- From paradigms to figures of thought / Denise Najmanovich -- Complex dynamical systems and the problem of identity / Alicia Juarrero -- Complexity, society, and everyday life / Pedro Sotolongo -- Emergence happens! Misguided paradigms regarding organizational change and the role of complexity and patterns in the change landscape / James Falconer -- Modeling of social organizations : necessity and possibility / Raimundo J. Franco Parellada -- The new complex perspective in economic analysis and business management / Ruth Mateos de Cabo, Elena Olmedo Fernández & Juan Manuel Valderas Jaramillo -- Complexity, ideology, and governance / Roger Strand -- Globalization and the complexity of human dignity / Ken Cole -- The consolations of uncertainty : time, change, and complexity / Carl A. Rubino |
| Notes |
A selection of papers presented at the first International Seminar on the Philosophical, Epistemological and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory, held in Jan. 2002 at the Instituto de Filosofía, Havana, Cuba |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Introd. also available online |
| Subject |
Complexity (Philosophy) -- Congresses.
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Science -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Capra, Fritjof.
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Instituto de Filosofía (Cuba. Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente)
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Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence.
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International Seminar on the Philosophical, Epistemological, and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory (1st : 2002 : Instituto de Filosofía, Cuba)
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| ISBN |
0976681463 |
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9780976681465 |
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