STU Professor Publishes Work on Systems Theory
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Darrell Arnold, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for World Languages and Cultures at St. Thomas University, has published an edited volume with Routledge, Traditions of Systems Theory: Major Figures and Contemporary Developments. Hans-Georg Moeller, of University College Cork, Ireland, notes that the book "provides a state-of-the-art survey of the increasingly influential and fascinating field of systems theory. It is a highly useful resource for a wide range of disciplines and contributes significantly to bringing together current trends in the sciences and the humanities." The book includes 17 articles from leading theoreticians in the field, including pieces by Ranulph Glanville, the President of the American Society of Cybernetics, as well as Debora Hammond, the former President of the International Society for Systems Sciences. It is the first comprehensive edited volume in English on the major and countervailing developments within systems theory.
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Dr. Arnold writes on 19th century German philosophy, contemporary social theory, as well as technology and globalization, with a focus on how these areas relate to the environmental problematic. He has translated numerous books from German, including C. Mantzavinos's Naturalistic Hermeneutics (Cambridge UP) and Matthias Vogel's Media of Reason (Columbia UP). Dr. Arnold is also editor-in-chief of the Humanities and Technology Review.
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Table of contents
Chapter One: Systems Theory: A Secret History of the 20th Century
Darrell P. Arnold
Section One: Early Developments and Their Continued Repercussions
Section One Introduction
Chapter Two: The Persistence of Information Theory
Philipp Schweighauser
Chapter Three: Cybernetics: Thinking Through the Technology
Ranulph Glanville
Chapter Four: Expanding the Self-Referential Paradox: The Macy Conferences and the Second Wave of Cybernetic Thinking
John Bruni
Chapter Five: The Hermeneutical System of General Systemology: Bertalanffian and Other Early Contributions to Its Foundations and Development
David Pouvreau
Chapter Six: The Ethics of Epistemology: The Work of the Constructivist and Cybernetician Heinz von Foerster, From the Vienna Circle to the Cybernetic Circle
Bernhard Pörksen
Chapter Seven: Maturana and Varela: From Autopoiesis to Systems Applications
Bob Mugerauer
Chapter Eight: Eugene Odum and the Homeostatic Ecosystem: the Resilience of an Idea
Joel Hagen
Section Two: Systems Thinking in Sociology
Section Two Introduction
Chapter Nine: Talcott Parsons: A Sociological Theory of Action Systems
Bettina Mahlert
Chapter Ten: Luhmann: Three Key Concepts, System, Meaning, Autopoiesis
Walter Reese-Schäfer
Chapter Eleven: Systems Historicized: Wallerstein's World-Systems Analysis
W.L. Goldfrank
Section Three: Further Contemporary Developments
Section Three Introduction
Chapter Twelve: Systems Theories and Literary Studies
Andrew McMurry
Chapter Thirteen: Systems Heuristics and Digital Culture
Raphael Sassower and Nimrod Bar-Am
Chapter Fourteen: A Brief Outline of Evolutionary Cultural Ecology
Peter Finke
Chapter Fifteen: Prigogine: The Interplay of Cosmos, Complexity, and Culture
Dorothea Olkowski
Chapter Sixteen: Systems Theory and Practice in Organizational Change and Development
Debora Hammond
Chapter Seventeen: Systems, Tools, and Bateson's Cybernetics: A Joint Metalogue
Nora Bateson and Phillip Guddemi
SOURCE St. Thomas University
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