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[ecrea] Call for Papers: essential systemic science encyclopaedia

Thu Jul 01 08:55:01 GMT 2010




CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS : DEADLINE EXTENSION to  September 1st,  2010

ALBERTO FEBBRAJO , Universit of Macerata,Italy

 ANDREA PITASI , d'Annunzio University Chieti-Pescara,Italy

 DARIO RODRIGUEZ| MANSILLA,Universidad Catolica de Santiago , Chile( Eds.)

ESSENTIAL SYSTEM SCIENCE ENCYCLOPAEDIA (ESSE) --

 ESSE is  under construction and will be  structured in about 200 items/entries . Among the key items. system complexity, differentiation, environment, communication,self organization, self reference, structural coupling,constructivism and items referred to  key scholars such as  Luhmann, von Foerster,von Glasersfeld etc. Contributors  are fee to submit items they consider  pivotal to understand System Sciences. deadline to submit the  fully written proposed  item(s) is September  1st 2010
Each entry/item would be of about 2500 words. You can choose one or more entries (up to 5 per author) among those listed below and /or choose some from the list and propose other ( total 5 entries, anyway).
Each item ,concerning an abstract concept such as  "system " or " complexity" should be structured   according to the following pattern :
 a)   definition(s) of the  item from the perspective of the social system theory
b)etimology
c)translations of the term in the other key languages
d)  accurate explanation
f)  very key references / essential bibliography
while  items concerning authors , such as Luhmann or Pask have to be structured as follows:
a) short bio
b) key concepts
c) key works they authored and brief summaries of their contents
d) brief explanation of the author's contribution to system  theory
e) key references about the author
 

All our best

Alberto Febbrajo

Dario Rodriguez  Mansilla

Andrea Pitasi

 

ENTRY/ ITEM STARTING LIST:

Action, communicative

Action, social

Action system( Crozier-Friedberg)

Action theory

Algorythm(evolutionary)

Alter/ego

Alternative

Asymmetry

Attribution (Heider)

Authority

Autologic

Automation

Automaton

Autonomous(Autonomy)

Autopoiesis

 Gregory Bateson

Binary code

Black box

Blind spot (Maturana)

Causality

Centrum/periphery

Chaos

Code

Cognition

Communication

Complexity

Complexity gradient

Complexity reduction

Computer

Conflict

Constructivism

Crossing, law of (Spencer Brown)

Coupling (loose & tight) (Heider)

Coupling, structural

Cybernetics(Cybernetics, second order)

Damage

Danger/risk

Data

Decision

Decision-making

Deconstruction

Deflation

Destructive interaction (Maturana)

Determinacy, structural

Diabolic/symbolic

Difference

Differentiation

Distinction

Double contingency

Double negation

Draw a distinction (Spencer Brown)

Economy

Education

Ego/Alter

Eigenwert (Hilbert, von Foerster, Luhmann)

Element

Emergence level

Enactment (Varela)

Enlightment (sociological)

Entropy/negentropy

Environment

Epistemology

Event

Evolution

Evolutionary achievement

Exclusion/inclusion

Expectation

Experience/action

Family

Feedback (negative & positive) (Wiener, Maruyama)

Heinz von Foerster

Form, Laws of (Spencer Brown)

Formal/informal

Function

Functional differentiation

Functional equivalent

Functionalism

Functional method

Future

Fuzzy logic

 

Gaia

Game theory

Garbage-can (James March)

Generalization

Ernst von Glasersfeld

Globalization

Harm

Hierarchie/heterarchie

High Speed Reconfigurational System (HSRS)

Holistic

Horizon

Humanism

Hypercomplexity

 Identity/difference

Improbability (of communication)

Inclusion/exclusion

Incompleteness

Indeterminacy

Indication (Spencer Brown)

Individual

Inflation/deflation

Information

Input/output

Inside/outside

Integration

Interaction

Interdependence

Interest

Interpenetration

Intersubjective

Irrationality

Irritation

Knowledge

Language

Ervin Laszlo

Latency

Leader

Leadership

Learning

Legal

Legislation

Legitimacy

Legitimate

Limit

Loose coupling

Love

Niklas Luhmann

Map/territory

Marked/unmarked space

Massmedia

Meaning

Meaning, dimensions of

Mechanisms, reflexive

Mechanisms, symbiotic

Media, symbolic generalized communications

Medical system

Medium/form (Heider)

Membership

Memory

Method

Modernity

Money

Moral

Motivation

National society (National state)

Negation

Negation, double

Negation, reflexive

Noise

Norm

Richard Normann

Normative

Object

Objectual dimension of meaning

Observation

Observation, second order

Observer

Ontology

Open systems’ theory

Operation

Optimization

Oral communication

Order, social

Order from noise

Organization

Organization theory

Output/input

Outside/inside

Paradigm

Paradigm change

Paradox

Parasite (Serres)
Gordon Pask
Passion, love as

Past

Payment/no payment

Peasant society

Perception

Performance

Periphery

Person

Personality

Perspective

Perturbation

Phenomenon

Phenomenology

Political system

Politics

Possibility

Postmodernism

Power

Predictability

Preference

Premise

Prerequisite

Present

Price

Primacy

Probability

Process/structure

Production

Property

Psychic system

Question

Random

Rational

Rationality

Reality

Recursion

Recursive

Reduction

Redundancy

Re-entry

Reflexion

Refusal

Regional society

Rejection

Relationship

Religion

Research

Resonance

Responsible

Restriction

Risk/danger(SEE ABOVE)

Role

Rule

 Scarcity

Schema

Science

Scientific system

Selection

Selective

Selectivity

Self

Self-description

Self-esteem

Self-organization

Self-production

Self-reference/hetero-reference

Self-reflexion

Social dimension of meaning

Social system
Society
George Spencer Brown

Status

Steady state

Strategy

Stratification

Stratified society

Structural coupling

Structural determinism

Structural drift (Maturana)

Structure/process

Subsystem

Symbiotic mechanism

Symbol

System

System/environment

 

Tautology

Technology

Temporal dimension of meaning

Territory/map

Thankfulness

Theory

Thought

Tight/loose coupling

Time

Trigger

True

Trust

 Jakob von Uexkull

Unbalance

Uncertainty

Underdevelopment

Understanding

Unexpected

Unforeseeable

Unpredictable

Utterance

 
Value
Francisco Varela
Variable

Variety

Verbal

Verbalize

Violence

Virtual

World

World society

Writing

 by sending  it/them to the ESSE Editor Andrea Pitasi (andrea.pitasi /at/ gmail.com) as Word attachments.

 ESSE will appear for the SYSTEM THEORY AND COMPLEXITY BOOK SERIES  ( Aracne Publishing, Rome) in collaboration with the World Complexity Science Academy(WCSA) a newborn organization already featured by a prestigious ,

international  Honoray Board:

Gabriel Altmann, Universitaet Bochum, Germany

Dario Rodriguez Mansilla Universidad Catolica  de Santiago , Chile 

Felix Ortega, Universidad de Salamanca , Spain

Loet Leydesdorff, Universitaet van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Giovanbattista Cavazzuti, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia,Italy

Albert Laszlo Barabasi, Notre Dame University, USA

Lucio d' Alessandro,  Suro Orsola Benincasa University, Naples, Italy

Sebastiano Bagnara, Sassari-Alghero University, Italy

 

 

Further Info  will follow  in  a second announcement and /or can be required by email to the ESSE EDITORS.

 

Best regards

Prof. Andrea Pitasi

website: www.andreapitasi.com

 

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