Imaginaries of Cyber Futures on the testbed of Information Ethics
Tomáš Sigmund from the University of Economics Prague and Wolfgang Hofkirchner hold together a course module at the Vienna University of Technology. The module on Designing technosocial systems focuses in the summer semester 2017 besides systems approaches and systemic approaches to information, information technologies and information society on information ethics and future…
Vienna 2017 | Workshop | Systems Approaches to Information Ethics I
Within the framework of the Emergent Systems, Information and Society group, Tomáš Sigmund was invited to the Center to start the joint research project “Systems Approaches to Information Ethics”. In a three-day workshop during his stay in Vienna (23-27 January, 2017), Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland) and Critical Systems Heuristics (Ulrich) were…
Bertalanffy Lecture 2016: “Complex Systems Perspective in Neuroscience – historical and current approaches“ by Prof. Péter Érdi
The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science welcomes the renowned expert Prof. Péter Érdi and invites you to join us for the next event of the BCSSS Lecture Series 2016 in Systems Medicine and Healthcare Systems on Thursday, 22 September 2016, 6 pm at the Bertalanffy Center for the…
Vienna 2016 | Wolfgang Hofkirchner | Convergences of General System Theory, Critical Realism and Theory of Society
The International Sociological Association held its 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 10-14 July 2016 in Vienna. The Forum was devoted to the topic “The future We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World”. Wolfgang Hofkirchner gave a presentation at the Research Committee on Sociocybernetics (RC 51) on…
Paris 2015 | Manfred Drack | Theoretical biology and the organism concept: a historical perspective
At the conference on “Biological complexity and organization: theoretical approaches and applications”, organized by Ana Soto, from 5 to 6 May 2015, Manfred Drack gave a talk on “Theoretical biology and the organism concept: a historical perspective”, underlining the importance of the organism concept in biology and beyond. See here.
Vienna 2014 | Workshop | The Dynamical Basis of Social Emergence
In November 2014, the Bertalanffy Center hosted as Visiting Scholar John Collier from South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. On 25 November 2014 he held a 3 hours workshop giving an overview of the concept of emergence (scientific and philosophical), a criticism of important approaches, a list of essential properties of…
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…
Invitation to the Bertalanffy Symposium 2013
We heartly invite you to the upcoming 2nd Bertalanffy Symposium Emergence: Systems – Evolution – Information jointly organised by the BCSSS and the Working Group Information Studies at the Austrian Computer Society. The current worldview of complexity aims at understanding emergent phenomena. Austrian and international experts from different disciplines –…
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