Qualitative Complexity

Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-Emergence of Structures in Post-Humanist Social Theory

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Smith, JohnJenks, Chris

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback

310 Seiten

Englisch

Taylor & Franciserschienen am13.02.2007

Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, cognitive science and evolutionary biology, the authors present a new series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures.mehr

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KlappentextDrawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, cognitive science and evolutionary biology, the authors present a new series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-415-43967-1

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

FormatTrade Paperback (USA)

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Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr2007

Erscheinungsdatum13.02.2007

Seiten310 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 154 mm, Höhe 233 mm, Dicke 22 mm

Gewicht440 g

Artikel-Nr.14901672

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

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Part 1: The Interdisciplinary Field 1. Complexity Theory: A Positioning Paper 2. From Descartes´ Conjecture to Kant´s Subject and the Computo 3. Autopoiesis in Cognitive Biology 4. Emergentism, Evolutionary Psychology and Culture 5. Prigogine´s Thermodynamics, Ontology and Sociology Part 2: Critical Developments 6. Modernism and Determinism: Linear Expectations and Qualitative Complexity Analyses 7. Complexity Theory as a Critique of Postmodernism 8. Cognition and the Renewal of Systems Theory: Redundant Idioms and Disputed Positions 9. The Evolution of Intelligence, Consciousness and Language: Implications for Social Theory 10. Complexity, Language and Culture: Social Systems in Qualitative, i.e. not Formal Terms Part 3: The Fields of Complex Analysis: Contemporary Complexity Theory 11. The Ethics of Pragmatism: Politics and Post-Structuralism in Transition after the Complexity Turn 12. The Topology of Complexity 13. Re-Interpreting Global Complexity as an Ontology: Human Ecologymehr