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The attribute 'systemic' means that this framework fits within Systemics, a thinking movement which originated from General System Theory (proposed by Von Bertalanffy) and from Cybernetics (introduced by Wiener and developed by Ashby and Von Foerster)
The two appendices on systemics characteristics and on various critical questions concerning systemics (e.g., on systemics as a discipline, on the possibility of its falsification) are highly informative
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Italian Systems Society, Milan, Italy
Gianfranco Minati
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University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Eliano Pessa
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Collective Beings
Authors: Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35941-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-35541-2Published: 10 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4205-0Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-35941-0Published: 26 December 2006
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 462
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Applications of Mathematics, Organization, Innovation/Technology Management, Philosophy of Technology, Systems Theory, Control