Overview
- Develops and updates the systemic approach in existing disciplines including physics, biology, ecology and systemics, but also introduces it in humanistic disciplines like philosophy, architecture, economy, legal studies, and classical studies
- Contributes to the consolidation and expansion of systemic thinking as a necessary integration of the general reductionist and dominant analytical attitude
- Supports the diffusion of new concepts and research methods in systemic thinking
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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A good candidate to support such a shift is the well known theoretical approach based on the concept of “system” that no more considers the elementary constituents of an object, but the entity emerging from the relations and interactionsamong its elementary parts. It becomes possible to reconstruct several domains, both philosophical and scientific, from the systemic point of view, introducing fresh ideas in the research in view of a general rational vision of the world on more comprehensive basis.
This book contributes to the diffusion and evolution of systemic thinking by focusing on two main objectives: developing and updating the systemic approach in disciplines currently using it and introducing the systemic perspective in humanistic disciplines, where the approach is not widely used. The Systemic Turn in Human and Natural Sciences: A Rock in the Pond is comprised of ten chapters. The chapter authors adopt a trans-disciplinary perspective, consisting in the recognition and harmonization of the special outlooks that together, within the general systemic paradigm, gives an ideal unity to the book.
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Book Title: The Systemic Turn in Human and Natural Sciences
Book Subtitle: A Rock in The Pond
Editors: Lucia Urbani Ulivi
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00725-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00724-9Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00725-6Published: 14 December 2018
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 205
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Analytic Philosophy, Complex Systems