John Collier visiting scholar in Vienna to work on theory of self-organization
John Collier, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate, Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, is visiting Vienna again. He is invited by TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) to work with Wolfgang Hofkirchner on the emergence of function in the course of evolution of self-organizing systems. Collier, Fellow of the BCSSS, member…
The BCSSS welcomes John Collier as Visiting Scholar in November 2014
John Collier, internationally renowned expert in systems, complexity and information, is to visit our Center. He will stay in Vienna for one week and give an open (ended) workshop on “The Dynamical Basis of Social Emergence”. It will deal with the question of what sort of dynamics are required for…
GST entry in “Handbook of the Philosophy of Science”
by Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Matthias Schafranek Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Matthias Schafranek, PhD student at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, finalised a manuscript on “General System Theory”. It will be part of Elsevier’s “Handbook of the Philosophy of Science” series volume “Philosophy of Complex Systems” that is edited by Cliff Hooker…
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