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  1. Paulina Taboada.The General Systems Theory: An Adequate - 2002 - In Paulina Taboada, Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback & Patricia Donohue-White, Person, society, and value: towards a personalist concept of health. Boston: Kluwer Academic.
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    Of Circles and Lines, Metaphors and Narratives: Toward a Systems Theory of Ethics Consultation.Jan Marta - 1995 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 6 (2):166-170.
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  3. Intentional systems theory, mental causation and empathic resonance.Marc V. P. Slors - 2007 - Erkenntnis 67 (2):321-336.
    In the first section of this paper I argue that the main reason why Daniel Dennett’s Intentional Systems Theory (IST) has been perceived as behaviourist or antirealist is its inability to account for the causal efficacy of the mental. The rest of the paper is devoted to the claim that by emending the theory with a phenomenon called ‘empathic resonance’ (ER), it can account for the various explananda in the mental causation debate. Thus, IST + ER is (...)
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  4. Neurodynamic system theory: Scope and limits.Péter Érdi - 1993 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 14 (2).
    This paper proposes that neurodynamic system theory may be used to connect structural and functional aspects of neural organization. The paper claims that generalized causal dynamic models are proper tools for describing the self-organizing mechanism of the nervous system. In particular, it is pointed out that ontogeny, development, normal performance, learning, and plasticity, can be treated by coherent concepts and formalism. Taking into account the self-referential character of the brain, autopoiesis, endophysics and hermeneutics are offered as elements of a (...)
     
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  5. Developmental Systems Theory as a Process Theory.Paul Edmund Griffiths & Karola Stotz - 2018 - In Daniel J. Nicholson & John Dupré, Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 225-245.
    Griffiths and Russell D. Gray (1994, 1997, 2001) have argued that the fundamental unit of analysis in developmental systems theory should be a process – the life cycle – and not a set of developmental resources and interactions between those resources. The key concepts of developmental systems theory, epigenesis and developmental dynamics, both also suggest a process view of the units of development. This chapter explores in more depth the features of developmental systems theory (...)
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  6. Developmental Systems Theory.Paul Griffiths & Adam Hochman - 2015 - eLS:1-7.
    Developmental systems theory (DST) is a wholeheartedly epigenetic approach to development, inheritance and evolution. The developmental system of an organism is the entire matrix of resources that are needed to reproduce the life cycle. The range of developmental resources that are properly described as being inherited, and which are subject to natural selection, is far wider than has traditionally been allowed. Evolution acts on this extended set of developmental resources. From a developmental systems perspective, development does not (...)
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    Living systems: theory and application.Tage Frandberg - 2001 - Huntington, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers.
    There is contrast to the belief that all energy and matter came into existence after the Big Bang. If we wish to understand the way the Greeks and other philosophers view our environment, we need to study the data that was collected by them. This book sees our portrayal of reality as having its departure point in concrete systems by which means of conceptual systems result in abstracted systems. This data must be sorted and information must now (...)
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    Complex systems theory and development practice: understanding non-linear realities.Samir Rihani - 2002 - New York: Zed Books.
    Here, for the first time, development studies encounters the set of ideas popularly known as 'Chaos Theory'. Samir Rihani applies to the processes of economic development, ideas from complex adaptive systems like uncertainty, complexity, and unpredictability. Rihani examines various aspects of the development process - including the World Bank, debt, and the struggle against poverty - and demonstrates the limitations of fundamentally linear thinking in an essentially non-linear world.
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    Dynamic systems theory places the scientist in the system.Alan Fogel, Ilse de Koeyer, Cory Secrist & Ryan Nagy - 2002 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (5):623-624.
    Dynamic systems theory is a way of describing the patterns that emerge from relationships in the universe. In the study of interpersonal relationships, within and between species, the scientist is an active and engaged participant in those relationships. Separation between self and other, scientist and subject, runs counter to systems thinking and creates an unnecessary divide between humans and animals.
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    Systems Theory and Scientific Philosophy: An Application of the Cybernetics of W. Ross Ashby to Personal and Social Philosophy, the Philosophy of Mind, and the Problems of Artificial Intelligence.John Bryant - 1991 - Upa.
    Systems Theory and Scientific Philosophy constitutes a totally new approach to philosophy, the philosophy of mind and the problems of artificial intelligence, and is based upon the pioneering work in cybernetics of W. Ross Ashby. While science is humanity's attempt to know how the world works and philosophy its attempt to know why, scientific philosophy is the application of scientific techniques to questions of philosophy.
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  11. Dynamical systems theory as an approach to mental causation.Tjeerd Van De Laar - 2006 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 37 (2):307-332.
    Dynamical systems theory (DST) is gaining popularity in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Recently several authors (e.g. J.A.S. Kelso, 1995; A. Juarrero, 1999; F. Varela and E. Thompson, 2001) offered a DST approach to mental causation as an alternative for models of mental causation in the line of Jaegwon Kim (e.g. 1998). They claim that some dynamical systems exhibit a form of global to local determination or downward causation in that the large-scale, global activity of the (...)
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    Phenomenology, System Theory and Family Therapy.Bertha Mook - 1985 - Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 16 (1):1-12.
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    Dynamic systems theory approach to consciousness.A. Bielecki, Andrzej Kokoszka & P. Holas - 2000 - International Journal of Neuroscience 104 (1):29-47.
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    Systems theory and evolutionary models of the development of science.James A. Blachowicz - 1971 - Philosophy of Science 38 (2):178-199.
    Philosophers of science have used various formulations of the "random mutation--natural selection" scheme to explain the development of scientific knowledge. But the uncritical acceptance of this evolutionary model has led to substantive problems concerning the relation between fact and theory. The primary difficulty lies in the fact that those who adopt this model (Popper and Kuhn, for example) are led to claim that theories arise chiefly through the processes of relatively random change. Systems theory constitutes a general (...)
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    On system theory and its relevance to problems in information science.Hassan Mortazavian - 1983 - In Fritz Machlup, The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages. Wiley.
  16. Dual-system theory and the role of consciousness in intentional action.Markus E. Schlosser - 2019 - In Bernard Feltz, Marcus Missal & Andrew Cameron Sims, Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience. Leiden: Brill. pp. 35–56.
    According to the standard view in philosophy, intentionality is the mark of genuine action. In psychology, human cognition and agency are now widely explained in terms of the workings of two distinct systems (or types of processes), and intentionality is not a central notion in this dual-system theory. Further, it is often claimed, in psychology, that most human actions are automatic, rather than consciously controlled. This raises pressing questions. Does the dual-system theory preserve the philosophical account of (...)
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    Systems Theory, Semiotics, Psychoanalysis, Literature.Michel Grimaud - 1978 - Substance 6 (20):115.
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    Normative systems theory for sustaining democracy.Yong Pil Rhee - 1998 - World Futures 52 (1):75-94.
  19. Developmental Systems Theory: What Does it Explain, and How Does It Explain It?Paul E. Griffiths & James G. Tabery - 2013 - In Richard M. Lerner & Janette B. Benson, Embodiment and Epigenesis: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Understanding the Role of Biology Within the Relational Developmental System Part A: Philosophical, Theoretical, and Biological Dimensions. Elsevier. pp. 65--94.
     
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    Systems Theory and Legal Theory: Luhmann, Heidegger and the False Ends of Metaphysics.Chris Thornhill - 2002 - Radical Philosophy 116 (Novemb):7-20.
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  21. Dynamical Systems Theory, Understanding, and Explanation: Comments on Malapi-Nelson's Paper with Responses from the Author.Pak Kin Ho & Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson - 2011 - Gnosis 6 (1).
     
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  22. General System Theory and the Vitalism-Mechanism controversy.W. Yourgrau - 1952 - Scientia 46 (87):307.
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  23. Special Systems Theory.Kent Palmer - manuscript
    A new advanced systems theory concerning the emergent nature of the Social, Consciousness, and Life based on Mathematics and Physical Analogies is presented. This meta-theory concerns the distance between the emergent levels of these phenomena and their ultra-efficacious nature. The theory is based on the distinction between Systems and Meta-systems (organized Openscape environments). We first realize that we can understand the difference between the System and the Meta-system in terms of the relationship between a (...)
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    Conceptual Systems Theory: A Neglected Perspective for the Anthropology of Consciousness.Charles D. Laughlin - 2017 - Anthropology of Consciousness 28 (1):31-68.
    As anthropology becomes more interested in consciousness and its numerous states, and with a slowly increasing appeal to neuroscience for insights and explanations of consciousness, there is an understandable interest in the components of consciousness and how they combine into alternative states in different sociocultural settings. One of those components should be the complexity of information processing producing the knowing aspect of consciousness. The author introduces an approach to this aspect in the form of conceptual systems theory, a (...)
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    Systemic theory, strong institutionalism and representative politics: another way to a radical democratic politics.Leno Francisco Danner - 2016 - Doispontos 13 (2).
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  26. M. bibliographie sélective.Soziale Syslemen, Legitimation Durch Verfahren, Soziologische Aufklârung, Aufsâlze Zur Theorie Sozialer Systeme & Illuminismo Sociologico - 1990 - Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie 89:397.
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    Rethinking systems theory: A programmatic introduction.Andreas Pickel - 2007 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 37 (4):391-407.
    Does systems theory need rethinking? Most social scientists would probably say no. It had its run, was debated critically, and found wanting. If at all, it should be treated historically. Why then might systems theory need rethinking, as the title of this symposium claims? The reason is that, unlike in the natural and biosocial sciences, any conception of system in the social sciences has remained suspect in the wake of problematic Parsonian and cybernetic systems theories. (...)
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    Critical systems theory.Andreas Fischer-Lescano - 2012 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 38 (1):3-23.
    Besides their skepticism about universal reason and universal morality, the Frankfurt Schools of Critical Systems Theory and Critical Theory share basic assumptions: (1) the thinking in societal-systemic, institutional concepts, which transcend simple reciprocal relations by dint of their complexity; (2) the assumption that society is based on fundamental paradoxes, antagonisms, antinomies; (3) the strategy to conceptualize justice as a contingent and transcendental formula; (4) the form of immanent (and not morality-based, external) critique as an attitude of transcendence; (...)
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    Can social systems theory be used for immanent critique?Alexei Procyshyn - 2017 - Thesis Eleven 143 (1):97-114.
    Two trends have emerged in recent work from the Frankfurt School: the first involves a reconsideration of immanent critique’s basic commitments and viability for critical social theory, while the second involves an effort to introduce temporal considerations for social interaction into critical theorizing to help make sense of the phenomenon of social acceleration. This article contributes to these ongoing discussions by investigating whether social systems theory, in which temporal relations play a primary role, can be integrated with (...)
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  30. Ecology, Environmentalism and System Theory.Chiara Certomà - 2006 - Kybernetes. The International Journal of Systems and Cybernetics 35 (6).
    The paper identifies the relation between ecology and environmentalism through the emergence of system theory.
     
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  31. Developmental Systems Theory Formulated as a Claim about Inherited Representations.Nicholas Shea - 2011 - Philosophy of Science 78 (1):60-82.
    Developmental Systems Theory (DST) emphasises the importance of non-genetic factors in development and their relevance to evolution. A common, deflationary reaction is that it has long been appreciated that non-genetic factors are causally indispensable. This paper argues that DST can be reformulated to make a more substantive claim: that the special role played by genes is also played by some (but not all) non-genetic resources. That special role is to transmit inherited representations, in the sense of Shea (2007: (...)
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  32. Systems theory and educational discourse.M. Letseka - 1995 - In Philip Higgs, Metatheories in philosophy of education. Johannesburg: [Distributed by] Thorold's Africana Books. pp. 285--306.
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  33. (1 other version)Dialectics and Systems Theory.Richard Levins - 1998 - Science and Society 62 (3):375-399.
    Systems Theory is best understood in its dual nature as an episode in the generic development of human understanding of the world, and as the specific product of its social history. On the one hand it is a "moment" in the investigation of complex systems, the place between the formulation of a problem and the interpretation of its solution where mathematical modeling can make the obscure obvious. On the other hand it is the attempt of a reductionist (...)
     
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  34. System theory of society in the light of marxist dialectic.C. Warnkeova - 1979 - Filosoficky Casopis 27 (4):553-562.
     
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    Systems Theory for Pragmatic Schooling: Toward Principles of Democratic Education.Richard Quantz & Deron Boyles - 2017 - Educational Theory 67 (1):107-115.
  36. Systems theory and the problem of reductionism.Evandro Agazzi - 1978 - Erkenntnis 12 (3):339 - 358.
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    Peirce on Systems Theory.Raymond M. Herbenick - 1970 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 6 (2):84 - 98.
    After examining c.s. peirce's concept, taxonomy, and hierarchy of the theoretical sciences of discovery as well as his notion of the economy of research as an objective of science, a study is made of his occasional but distinct use of the term 'system' in conceptual and procedural contexts. the study shows that peirce's views on systems theory resemble current views held by some proponents of the systems concept and the systems approach to problem-solving.
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    Why intentional systems theory cannot reconcile physicalism with realism about belief and desire.Brian P. McLaughlin - 2000 - ProtoSociology 14:145-157.
    In this paper, I examine Daniel Dennett’s well-known intentional systems theory of belief and desire from the perspective of physicalism. I begin with a general discussion of physicalism. In the course of that discussion, I present familiar ways that one might attempt to reconcile physicalism with belief-desire realism. I then argue that intentional systems theory will not provide a reconciliation of physicalism and belief-desire realism.
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    Dynamical systems theory in cognitive science and neuroscience.Luis H. Favela - 2020 - Philosophy Compass 15 (8):e12695.
    Dynamical systems theory (DST) is a branch of mathematics that assesses abstract or physical systems that change over time. It has a quantitative part (mathematical equations) and a related qualitative part (plotting equations in a state space). Nonlinear dynamical systems theory applies the same tools in research involving phenomena such as chaos and hysteresis. These approaches have provided different ways of investigating and understanding cognitive systems in cognitive science and neuroscience. The ‘dynamical hypothesis’ claims (...)
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    Systems Theory, Arrogant and Humble.Jay Ogilvy - 2013 - World Futures 69 (4-6):332 - 344.
    (2013). Systems Theory, Arrogant and Humble. World Futures: Vol. 69, The Complexity of Life and Lives of Complexity, pp. 332-344.
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  41. Systems Theory and Complexity.Arran Gare - 2000 - Democracy and Nature 6 (3):327-339.
    In this paper the central ideas and history of the theory of complex systems are described. It is shown how this theory lends itself to different interpretations and, correspondingly, to different political conclusions.
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    Hegel and Ecologically Oriented System Theory.Darrell Arnold - 2011 - Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 7 (16):53-64.
    Building on the views of Kant and early nineteenth century life scientists, Hegel develops a view of systems that is a clear precursor to the developments in Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s general system theory, as well as the thinking of the ecologically minded system thinkers that built upon the foundation Bertalanffy laid. Hegel describes systems as organic wholes in which the parts respectively serve as means and ends. Further, in the Encyclopedia version of the logic Hegel notes that (...)
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    Introduction: Reassessing Developmental Systems Theory.Anouk Barberousse, Francesca Merlin & Thomas Pradeu - 2010 - Biological Theory 5 (3):199-201.
    The Developmental Systems Theory (DST) presented by its proponents as a challenging approach in biology is aimed at transforming the workings of the life sciences from both a theoretical and experimental point of view (see, in particular, Oyama [1985] 2000; Oyama et al. 2001). Even though some may have the impression that the enthusiasm surrounding DST has faded in very recent years, some of the key concepts, ideas, and visions of DST have in fact pervaded biology and philosophy (...)
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    Systems theory and deconstruction.Carlos Durán - 2013 - Cinta de Moebio 46:26-36.
    The following article attempts to be a contribution to the reflection on the lines of continuity, proximity relations and possibles elements of differentiationon two theoretical fields of growing importance within the social sciences: theory of systems of Niklas Luhmann and the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida. Along with accounting for the extent of both theories for reflection on the foundations of the social sciences, this article tries to install some useful questions for self-observation of the epistemological foundations of this (...)
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    Systems theory and objectivity.Morton A. Kaplan - 1974 - Theory and Decision 5 (4):441-446.
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    (1 other version)Deliberative systems theory and activism.Ben Cross - 2019 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy:1-18.
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    Developmental Systems Theory and Human Embryos.Kevin C. Elliott - 2005 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 5 (2):249-259.
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    Bowen Family Systems Theory: Mapping a framework to support critical care nurses’ well‐being and care quality.Samantha Jakimowicz, Lin Perry & Joanne Lewis - 2021 - Nursing Philosophy 22 (2):e12320.
    Intensive care nursing is prone to episodic anxiety linked to patients’ immediate needs for treatment. Balancing biomedical interventions with compassionate patient‐centred nursing can be particularly anxiety provoking. These patterns of anxiety may impact compassion and patient‐centred nursing. The aim of this paper is to discuss the application of Bowen Family Systems Theory to intensive care nursing, mapping a framework to support critical care nurses’ well‐being and, consequently, the quality of care they provide. This article is founded on research, (...)
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  49. Dynamical Systems Theory and Explanatory Indispensability.Juha Saatsi - 2017 - Philosophy of Science 84 (5):892-904.
    I examine explanations’ realist commitments in relation to dynamical systems theory. First I rebut an ‘explanatory indispensability argument’ for mathematical realism from the explanatory power of phase spaces (Lyon and Colyvan 2007). Then I critically consider a possible way of strengthening the indispensability argument by reference to attractors in dynamical systems theory. The take-home message is that understanding of the modal character of explanations (in dynamical systems theory) can undermine platonist arguments from explanatory indispensability.
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    Traditions of Systems Theory: Major Figures and Contemporary Developments.Darrell P. Arnold - 2013 - Routledge.
    The term 'systems theory' is used to characterize a set of disparate yet related approaches to fields as varied as information theory, cybernetics, biology, sociology, history, literature, and philosophy. What unites each of these traditions of systems theory is a shared focus on general features of systems and their fundamental importance for diverse areas of life. Yet there are considerable differences among these traditions, and each tradition has developed its own methodologies, journals, and forms (...)
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