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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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As leit-motiv for the celebration of the 100anniversity of Karl Ludwig von BERTALANFFY, Prof. ELOHIM (Technical University, Vienna) reproducedthe following texts of this founder ofthe systems movement:

"The overall fate of the world depends on the adoption by humanity of a new set of values, based on a general systems Weltanschauung (worldview), and…

(We must seek)" another basic outlook: the world as organization, (which) would profoundly change the categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes, as we must envision the biosphere as a whole- with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive interdependencies"

In his introductory manifest for the celebration meeting at the Vienna Technological University- which took place in 2001- Prof. Elohim collected supporting or coincident opinions and views to BERTALANFFY's ones. Among these are notes and papers by Janet M. EATON, C.H. WADDINGTON, L. MUMFORD, R. HUTCHINGS, L. EISELEY, N. COUSINS and A. EINSTEIN.

(Personal communication from Prof. Elohim)

Categories

  • 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).

To cite this page, please use the following information:

Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]

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