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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A Rock in The Pond
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ISBN
9783030007256
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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