The Systemic Turn in Human and Natural Sciences: A Rock in The Pond

Author:   Lucia Urbani Ulivi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
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9783030007249


Pages:   205
Publication Date:   12 January 2019
Format:   Hardback
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This book is dedicated to the consolidation and to the expansion of theoretic systems thinking as a necessary integration of the general reductionist and analytical attitude dominant in our culture. Reductionism and analytical approaches have produced significant results in many fields of contemporary knowledge giving a great contribution to relevant scientific discoveries and to their technological application, but their validity has been improperly universalized as the only and best methods of knowledge in every domain. It is nowadays clear that analytical or mereological approaches are inadequate to solve many problems and that we should introduce – or support the diffusion of - new concepts and different research attitudes. A good candidate to support such a shift is the well known theoretical approach based on the concept of “system” that no more considers the elementary constituents of an object, but the entity emerging from the relations and interactionsamong its elementary parts.  It becomes possible to reconstruct several domains, both philosophical and scientific, from the systemic point of view, introducing fresh ideas in the research in view of a general rational vision of the world on more comprehensive basis. This book contributes to the diffusion and evolution of systemic thinking by focusing on two main objectives: developing and updating the systemic approach in disciplines currently using it and introducing the systemic perspective in humanistic disciplines, where the approach is not widely used. The Systemic Turn in Human and Natural Sciences: A Rock in the Pond is comprised of ten chapters. The chapter authors adopt a trans-disciplinary perspective, consisting in the recognition and harmonization of the special outlooks that together, within the general systemic paradigm, gives an ideal unity to the book.

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Author:   Lucia Urbani Ulivi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.512kg
ISBN:  

9783030007249


ISBN 10:   3030007243
Pages:   205
Publication Date:   12 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter1. Phenomenological structural dynamics of emergence: an overview of how emergence emerges.- Chapter2. The world opacity and knowledge.- Chapter3. In search of organization laws: a new way of doing science?.- Chapter4. Is Present Ecology a Systemic Discipline? New Scientific Paradigms Lead to Bionomics.- Chapter5. Architecture and Systemics – a Brief Outline .- Chapter6. Climate Risks, Economics and Finance: Insights from Complex Systems.- Chapter7. The Legal Concept of the Environment and Systemic Vision.- Chapter8. The Living Body as a Model of Systemic Organization in Ancient Thinking.- Chapter9. Sentences as Systems. The Principle of Compositionality and its Limits.- Chapter10. Mind and Body. Whose? Philosophy of Mind and the Systemic Approach.

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Lucia Urbani Ulivi is a Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Ontology and Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy of the Catholic University in Milan, Italy. Her research interests mainly concern metaphysics, in the sense of the great classical tradition, updated through scientific contemporary references. Since 2009 she has been working on systems thinking, with particular attention to the interdisciplinary cooperation promoted by system theory. She has organized and coordinated since 2009 the research group about systemic thinking in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, that held more than eighty seminars and conferences whose results have been regularly published in Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016) and in the editing of three volumes: Strutture di mondo. Il pensiero sistemico come specchio di una realtà complessa, Il Mulino, Bologna 2010, 2013, 2015.

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