Abstract
The ever increasing need (especially in biology) to cope with problems asking for a network-like formalization in which the focus is a sensible description of the correlation structure among the constituent parts is catalyzing what appears as a change in the style of doing science.
The blurring of the distinction between hypothesis generating and testing processes and the substitution of theories peculiar of the specific investigation field with largely independent of the microscopic details organization principles are reshaping the scientific culture.
The above sketched style still refers to a minority of scientific works; nevertheless, it embeds a great promise of making science to exit the actual lack of efficacy crisis due to hyper-specialization.
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Giuliani, A. (2019). In Search of Organization Laws: A New Way of Doing Science? (The Uprising of Systemic Attitude). In: Urbani Ulivi, L. (eds) The Systemic Turn in Human and Natural Sciences. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00725-6_3
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