Overview
- Offers a new foundation of science in general, from the physical to the human sciences
- Introduces a new synthesis in science based on Ashby's theory of cybernetic systems
- Develops a new anthropology that informs the birth of the domain of Utopics
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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The book consolidates systems thinking as a new world-hypothesis that is already suggesting itself behind the advancement of quantum mechanics and Ashby’s cybernetics. In particular, it shows how Einstein’s misgivings about quantum mechanics boil down to his persistence in defending the principle of contiguity at the root of the modern cosmology and, in relation to neo-cybernetics, the book rediscovers Ashby’s theory of adaptive behaviour enabling a new synthesis between physiology, psychology and ethology that has implications for systems practice.
Furthermore, this new “cosmology” comes with a new “anthropology” that informs utopics, the science of utopic systems, and sheds new light on the actual founding fathers of the domain of human science. In particular, the book provides an understanding of how our human world works and how it is being constituted by utopic systems that look into the future to realize something possible. Finally, it points the way to the future unification of knowledge bringing together systems philosophy and systems science given that world-hypothesis is what makes logically possible the development and consolidation of all the different domains of science.Authors and Affiliations
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Book Title: Utopics
Book Subtitle: The Unification of Human Science
Authors: Manel Pretel-Wilson
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54177-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54176-7Published: 07 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54179-8Published: 08 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54177-4Published: 06 October 2020
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Philosophy, Operations Research/Decision Theory