Preface
Vladimir Arshinov and Christian Fuchs
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I. Causality and Emergence |
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Emergence of Cause or Cause of Emergence?
Irina Dobronravova |
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An Integrative Image of Causality and Emergence
Klaus Brunner and Bert Klauninger |
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Decentralisation as Organising Principle of Emergent Urban Structures
Rainer E. Zimmermann |
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An Integrated Notion of “Law”
Annette Schlemm |
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The Spontaneity of Emergent Events and the Formation of Facts
Yuriy Myelkov |
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II. Principles of Synergetics |
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II.1. General Systems |
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Evolutionism, the Anthropic Principle, and New Rationality
Vyacheslav Stepin |
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A New Way of Thinking and A New World View.
On the Philosophy of Self-Organisation I.
Wolfgang Hofkirchner |
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Fundamental Properties of Self-Organisation
John Collier |
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Principles of Synergetics
Vladimir Budanov and Natalya Savicheva |
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Synergetic Knowledge: Between the Network and the Principles
Vladimir I. Arshinov and Vjacheslav E. Voitsekhovich |
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II.2. Physical Systems |
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Dialectical Philosophy and Self-Organisation
Christian Fuchs |
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Emergence and Self-Organisation of Complex Systems.
The Role of Energy Flows and Information
Norbert Fenzl |
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Spinoza, the ”Very Untranscendental“. Ernst Bloch´s Interpretation of Spinoza
Doris Zeilinger |
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II.3. Biological Systems |
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Organisation in Biological Systems
John Collier |
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II.4. Social Systems |
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The Autocreation of Communication and the Re-creation of Actions in Social Systems
Christian Fuchs and Gottfried Stockinger |
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Action, Communication, and Creativity.
A Contribution from a Meadean Perspective
Franz Ofner |
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