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- The attribute 'systemic' means that this framework fits within Systemics, a thinking movement which originated from General System Theory (proposed by Von Bertalanffy) and from Cybernetics (introduced by Wiener and developed by Ashby and Von Foerster)
- The two appendices on systemics characteristics and on various critical questions concerning systemics (e.g., on systemics as a discipline, on the possibility of its falsification) are highly informative
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Italian Systems Society, Milan, Italy
Gianfranco Minati
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University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Eliano Pessa
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Collective Beings
Authors: Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35941-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-35541-2Published: 10 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4205-0Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-35941-0Published: 26 December 2006
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 462
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Applications of Mathematics, Organization, Innovation/Technology Management, Philosophy of Technology, Systems Theory, Control