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Selforganization

Portrait of a Scientific Revolution

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Editors:
  1. Wolfgang Krohn

    1. University of Bielefeld, Germany

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  2. Günter Küppers

    1. University of Bielefeld, Germany

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  3. Helga Nowotny

    1. University of Vienna, Austria

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Part of the book series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (SOSC, volume 14)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Selforganization — the Convergence of Ideas An Introduction

    1. Selforganization — the Convergence of Ideas An Introduction

      • Wolfgang Krohn, Günter Küppers, Helga Nowotny
      Pages 1-10

  3. Epistemological Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Science and Daily Life: The Ontology of Scientific Explanations

      • Humberto R. Maturana
      Pages 12-35

    3. Self-Organization, Emergent Properties and the Unity of the World

      • Gerhard Roth, Helmut Schwegler
      Pages 36-50

    4. On a Fundamental Paradigm Shift in the Natural Sciences

      • Bernd-Olaf Küppers
      Pages 51-63

    5. The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and a Reality that Remains Unknown

      • Niklas Luhmann
      Pages 64-85

  4. Selfreference and Selfregulation in Social Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 86-86
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    2. How the Law Thinks: Toward a Constructivist Epistemology of Law

      • Gunther Teubner
      Pages 87-113

    3. Self-Regulation in Social Systems

      • Peter M. Hejl
      Pages 114-127

    4. Systemic Therapy A Particular Drift between Systems Theory and Psychotherapy

      • Kurt Ludewig
      Pages 128-142

    5. Literary Systems as Self-Organizing Systems

      • Siegfried J. Schmidt
      Pages 143-153

    6. Chekhov’s Letter: Linguistic System and its Discontents

      • Christopher S. Braider
      Pages 154-168

  5. The Appearance of Structure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Concepts of Self-Organization in the 19th Century

      • Michael Heidelberger
      Pages 170-180

    3. Cognitive Systems as Self-Organizing Systems

      • Michael Stadler, Peter Kruse
      Pages 181-193
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may be complex without being able to be replaced by something »still more simple«. This became evident with the help of computer models of deterministic-recursive systems in which simple mathematical equation systems provide an extremely complex behavior. (2) Irregularity of nature is not treated as an anomaly but becomes the focus of research and thus is declared to be normal. One looks for regularity within irregularity. Non-equilibrium processes are recognized as the source of order and the search for equilibrium is replaced by the search for the dynamics of processes. (3) The classical system-environment model, according to which the adaptation of a system to its environment is controlled externally and according to which the adaptation of the system occurs in the course of a learning process, is replaced by a model of systemic closure. This closure is operational in so far as the effects produced by the system are the causes for the maintenance of systemic organization. If there is sufficient complexity, the systems perform internal self-observation and exert self-control (»Cognition« as understood by Maturana as self-perception and self-limitation, e. g. , that of a cell vis-a. -vis its environment). 22 But any information a system provides on its environment is a system-internal construct. The »reference to the other« is merely a special case of »self-reference«. The social sciences frequently have suffered from the careless way in which scientific ideas and models have been transferred.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bielefeld, Germany

    Wolfgang Krohn, Günter Küppers

  • University of Vienna, Austria

    Helga Nowotny

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Selforganization

  • Book Subtitle: Portrait of a Scientific Revolution

  • Editors: Wolfgang Krohn, Günter Küppers, Helga Nowotny

  • Series Title: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2975-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0830-0Published: 31 August 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4073-2Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2975-8Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0167-2320

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 272

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Epistemology, Systems Theory, Control

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