Vienna 2014 | Workshop | Current Problems of Systems Theory
The BCSSS organised a small workshop for invited guests with Rainer E. Zimmermann on May 30, 2014. Start of the workshop (photo: Wolfgang Hofkirchner) Zimmermann stayed during spring term as Researcher in Residence with the Bertalanffy Center. In the workshop he provided an overview of the studies he carried out when being…
Vienna 2013 | Ludwig von Bertalanffy Symposium
“Emergence: System – Evolution – Information” was the title of the second LvB Symposium held by our Center. It was organised in co-operation with the Austrian Computer Society Working Group Information Studies. About 25 guests attended the symposium which took place from 5 to 6 December. This time five experts…
Mario Bunge on “Quantum Physics” and on “Mind”
Mario Bunge, EMCSR keynote speaker and winner of the Ludwig von Bertalanffy Award in Complexity Thinking 2014, was invited to hold two additional talks during his stay in Vienna. Both events were co-organised by the BCSSS. Anton Zeilinger, President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, invited Bunge to the Vienna branch of…
Palermo 2014 | Panel | Primordial Matter, Particles, and Stuff. On the Transition from Physics to Chemistry and Further On
Via Roma, Center of Palermo (photo: Thomas Zimmermann) What is the nature of matter? This question is still contested. Philosophers met in Palermo from the 10th to the 13th of April to discuss the latest state-of the-art. The conference had the title “Understanding Matter” and was hosted by the Department…
Understanding Matter
The Italian Centro Internazionale per la Ricerca Filosofica held its first international conference in Palermo from April 10 to 13, 2014. About 100 speakers discussed philosophical problems of understanding matter. The Bertalanffy Center was represented with talks by José María Díaz Nafría, Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Rainer Zimmermann. They took part…
Mechanisms as causes for societal development
Social scientists are inclined to talk of social “mechanisms” to designate that which brings about effects in the course of development. “Mechanisms” are the causes for the reproduction of society and its transformation as well. However, “mechanisms” are not strictly deterministic as mechanical causations might be. They depend on the…
Systems Sciences meet Systems Engineering
A small group of international experts from both systems sciences and systems engineering met in the beginning of November for a six days conversation in a research retreat near Cómpeta (Malaga, Spain). Janet Singer, an independent researcher, member of the ISSS, convoked that group “to test the premise that more robust, coherent and effective…
Governor of Hai Phong visited Vienna and the IFSR
Gary Metcalf, Stefan Blachfellner and Gerhard Chroust, International Federation for Systems Research officers (IFSR), established strong relations with Dr. Nguyen van Thanh, Governor of Hai Phong City of Vietnam at the 57th ISSS Congress in Hai Phong, July 2013. As a consequence Dr. Thanh and a delegation of 9 high-ranking…
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