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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM 2)

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Many discussions between authors proposing different methodologies for the study of complex systems led to some confusion about supposedly contradictory claims.

There is even some danger that these controversies could obscure the respective merits of different approaches. M. JACKSON, after a careful consideration of various proposals, proposes a definition of the kind of pluralism that is required: "Pluralism needs, as an approach to managing complex problems, to emply a meta-methodology to take maximum advantage of the benefits to be gained from using methodologies premised upon alternative paradigms together, and also encourages the combined use of diverse methods, models, tools and techniques, in a theoretically and methodologically informed way, to ensure maximum flexibility in an intervention "(2000, p. 387)

A useful collection of papers edited by J.C. MINGERS and A. GILL (1997) also focuses on multimethodology.

Still another pluralistic methodology has been proposed by A. TAKET and L. WHITE, under the name of PANDA (Participating appraisal of needs and the development of action) (1998, p. 153-158)

→ Conceptual blocking; Experimental frame; Frame of references

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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