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Vienna 2017 | Workshop | Systems Approaches to Information Ethics III

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Posted in Emergent Systems Information and Society, Human Digitalization, Research, Systems Approaches to Information Ethics

The third meeting of the project “Systems Approaches to Information Ethics” was held in Vienna 13-17 November 2017. The topics included: foundational questions of systems approaches (evolutionary theory, emergentist systemism and normativity; information in the context of Being and non-being,…

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Call for Proposals! 10th Congress of the European Union for Systemics 2018

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in Calls

EUS – UES 2018 A Systemic Vision of the Crises From optimization to change strategy? 10th Congress of the European Union for Systemics 15th to 17th October 2018 Brussels, Belgium Although raised many times on other congresses, the theme…

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BCSSS Research Group “Systems Medicine and Healthcare Systems” joined a promising programme during the ISSS2017 Vienna

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in Human Digitalization, Meetings, Research, Systems Medicine and Health Care Systems

In the framework of the ISSS2017 Vienna in July 2017 one of the conference days focused on “From Public Health to Health Systems”. Following that programme the BCSSS Research Group “Systems Medicine and Healthcare Systems” joined the day and Prof.…

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BCSSS Dialogue. April 12th 2017 “The Utopia of Universal Control: Critical Thoughts on Transhumanism”

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in Emergent Systems Information and Society, Lectures, Meetings

On April 12th 2017 the Bertalanffy Center invites to a discussion on Transhumanism introduced by a critical talk by Janina Loh “The Utopia of Universal Control: Critical Thoughts on Transhumanism” and a statement “The Ghost of Transhumanism and the Sentience…

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León 2014 | Workshop | Understanding Complexity

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in Lectures

From 27 – 30 January, 2014 , a workshop for students was held under the title “Understanding complexity: systems, emergence and evolution“. It was organised and introduced by BCSSS Fellow José María Díaz Nafría. In addition, the Center was represented…

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Vienna 2012 | European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research 2012 (EMCSR 2012)

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in emcsr, Meetings

From 10 to 13 April 2012 the Campus of the University of Vienna was the venue of the EMCSR 2012. 168 academics and practitioners attended the conference as well as 17 journalists (13 of whom were in training at the…

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