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New Perspectives on Cybernetics

Self-Organization, Autonomy and Connectionism

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Gertrudis Vijver

    1. University of Ghent, Belgium

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 220)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-9
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  2. Introduction Different Kinds of Cybernetics

    1. Introduction Different Kinds of Cybernetics

      • Gordon Pask
      Pages 11-31

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 247-262
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About this book

Gertrudis Van de Vijver· Seminar of Logic and Epistemology University of Ghent Before being classified under the fashionable denominators of complexity and chaos, self-organization and autonomy were intensely inquired into in the cybernetic tradition. Despite all rejections that cybernetics has gone through in the second half of this century, today its importance is more and more recognized. Its decisive influence for connectionist theories, autopoietic and constructivist theories, for different forms of applied or experimental epistemology, is being more and more understood and generally accepted. It is mainly due to the success of connectionist models that we observe today a revival of interest for cybernetics. The 1943 article by McCulloch and Pitts is evidently a founding article. Cybernetics has however a much broader interest than the one linked to technical-mathematical details relevant to the construction of networks. For instance, the evolution from first to second order cybernetics, the ways of approaching biological and cognitive phenomena in the latter and the limits that were formulated there, are particularly meaningful to understand current developments and divergences in connectionism. A nuanced picture of cybernetic's history and its present state is therefore clearly epistemologically essential.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Ghent, Belgium

    Gertrudis Vijver

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Perspectives on Cybernetics

  • Book Subtitle: Self-Organization, Autonomy and Connectionism

  • Editors: Gertrudis Vijver

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8062-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1519-3Published: 30 November 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4107-4Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8062-5Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 262

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Systems Theory, Control, Epistemology

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