Traditions of systems theory : major figures and contemporary developments /
Arnold, Darrell(Darrell P.),editor of compilation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Systems theory : a secret history of the 20th century / Darrell P. Arnold -- The persistence of information theory / Philipp Schweighauser -- Cybernetics : thinking through the technology / Ranulph Glanville -- Expanding the self-referential paradox : the Macy conferences and the second wave of cybernetic thinking / John Bruni -- The hermeneutical system of general systemology : Bertalanffian and other early contributions to its foundations and development / David Pouvreau -- The ethics of epistemology : the work of the constructivist and cybernetician Heinz Von Foerster, from the Vienna Circle to the Cybernetic Circle / Bernhard Pörksen -- Maturana and Varela : from autopoiesis to systems applications? / Bob Mugerauer -- Eugene Odum and the homeostatic ecosystem : the resilience of an idea / Joel Hagen -- Talcott Parsons : a sociological theory of action systems / Bettina Mahlert -- Luhmann : three key concepts, system, meaning, autopoiesis / Walter Reese-Schäfer -- Systems historicized : Wallerstein's World-systems analysis / W.L. Goldfrank -- Systems theories and literary studies / Andrew McMurry -- Systems heuristics and digital culture / Raphael Sassower and Nimrod Bar-Am -- A brief outline of evolutionary cultural ecology / Peter Finke -- Prigogine : the interplay of cosmos, complexity, and culture / Dorothea Olkowski -- Systems theory and practice in organizational change and development / Debora Hammond -- Systems, tools, and Bateson's cybernetics : a joint metalogue / Nora Bateson and Phillip Guddemi.
System theory.
Cybernetics.
Information theory.