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Critical complexity : collected essays / Paul Cilliers ; edited by Rika Preiser.
LIBRA B105.C473 C555 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cilliers, Paul, 1956-2011, author.
- Series:
- Categories (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; v. 6.
- Categories, 2198-1868 ; Volume 6
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Complexity (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 283 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
- Summary:
- Contemporary theories on complex adaptive systems stem from a natural science perspective. Paul Cilliers was one of the first complexity thinkers to translate the theoretical concepts into a qualitative and normative understanding of complexity. This collected volume of essays consolidates his later work. The introduction by Preiser and Woermann reflects on the significance of his contribution within the broader field of complex systems thinking. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Single-Authored Papers
- Theme 1 Characterising Complexity
- The brain, the mental apparatus and the text: A post-structural neuropsychology / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 23
- Rules and relations Some connectionist implications for cognitive science and language / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 39
- Rules and complex systems / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 55
- What can we learn from a theory of complexity? / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 67
- Knowledge, complexity and understanding / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 77
- Boundaries, hierarchies and networks in complex systems / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 85
- Why we cannot know complex things completely / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 97
- Knowledge, limits and boundaries / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 105
- Part 1 Single-Authored Papers
- Theme 2 Complexity and Philosophy
- Postmodern knowledge and complexity (or why anything does not go) / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 117
- Complexity, deconstruction and relativism / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 139
- On Derrida and apartheid / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 153
- Justice, law and philosophy: An interview with Jacques Derrida / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul, Willie van der Merwe Merwe, Willie van der, Johan Degenaar Degenaar, Johan 171
- Complexity, ethics and justice / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 181
- Theme 3 Implications of Complexity Thinking
- Difference, identity and complexity / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 193
- Complexity and philosophy: On the importance of a certain slowness / Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 211
- Part 2 Posthumous after 2011
- Theme 1 Critical Complexity
- Deconstruction and complexity: A critical economy / Rika Preiser Preiser, Rika, Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul, Oliver Human Human, Oliver 225
- Towards an economy of complexity: Derrida, Morin and Bataille / Oliver Human Human, Oliver, Paul Cilliers Cilliers, Paul 245
- The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics / Minka Woermann Woermann, Minka, Paul Ciltiers Ciltiers, Paul 265.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501510793
- 1501510797
- OCLC:
- 934706074
- Publisher Number:
- 9781501510793
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