The Bertalanffy Center is in the position to offer a scholarship for PhD students enrolled in a doctoral programme at an Austrian university. The thematic orientation can belong to any academic field, as long as it promises to yield or promote new findings in systems science. Any systems approach may…

Jennifer Wilby (photo: Jennifer Wilby) Jennifer Wilby is the first female member of our Scientific Council (see here). She is a senior lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Programmes in the Business School at the University of Hull.  Jennifer is a Fellow of the International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Systems (IASCYS),…

Die Dissertation von David Pouvreau, Autor des Artikels „The Dialectical Tragedy of the Concept of Wholeness“, publiziert in Band 1 der BCSSS Buchreihe „Exploring Unity Through Diversity“, ist veröffentlicht. „A history of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s ‚General Systemology‘ – Genealogy, genesis, actualization and posterity of a hermeneutical project“ wurde an der…

Am 15. Januar 2013 wurde in feierlichem Rahmen in Annabichl, Kärnten, von unserem langjährigen Vorstandsmitglied Günther Ossimitz Abschied genommen. Günther Ossimitz ist am 8. Januar in Folge einer schweren Erkrankung verstorben. Zum Andenken an Günther Ossimitz wünschen die Angehörigen die Einrichtung eines Stipendiums für junge Wissenschaftler und bedanken sich für…

The first volume of the 2004 edition of the Encyclopedia The editor of the well-known International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (because of the cross-references of the entries a work put together in hyperlink style apt for the electronic age), Charles François, was elected honorary member of the Bertalanffy Center. He had donated in…

After the French and Spanish edition „La via: Para el futuro de la humanidad“ in 2011, the German Publisher Reinhold Krämer Verlag released last month the German translation „Der Weg – Für die Zukunft der Menschheit“ of Edgar Morin’s book about the planetary crisis. It’s the crisis of humanity that struggles…

BCSSS Scientific Council member Rainer E. Zimmermann is invited to give a talk in the Vienna Jour Fixe „Simulation komplexer Systeme“, run by Manfred Füllsack. Zimmermann will talk about „Metaphysics of Emergence“. In the abstract he writes: „During the last fifteen years we can observe a progressive convergence of physics, biology,…

Manfred Drack is invited to give a talk at the Arbeitskreis Information Studies of the Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft about problems of systems biology. In particular, he will discuss the system conception of Paul Weiss (see here). Title: „Systemdenken bei Paul A. Weiss“ (in German) Venue: Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft, Room C1,…