|
2.2 OBJECTIVES.
The following objectives are specific to
the overall purpose:
A. To foster the investigation of the analogy
or isomorphy of concepts, laws, and models in various disciplines and professions.
B. To promote the unity of science through
improving communications among the specialists in various scientific fields.
C. To facilitate transfer of concepts, laws,
and models across disciplines and professions.
D. To encourage development of theoretical
models where they are lacking.
E. To reduce the duplication of theoretical
efforts between and among disciplines and professions.
The General Principle as philosophy:
INTEGRANTS WORKING TOGETHER
AS A WHOLE
Significant
Papers
Systems Networking
ISSS
2003 Digest
ISSS
2002 Digest
MAJOR LINKS
Calresco "Complexity
and Artificial
Life Research Concept"
-
-
- Conferences
-
- David Ing Notes
- 1998 1999 2000
2001
2002
2003
-
- Special Features
Special Activities
References
Membership
The Wholeness
Project
The Stafford Beer Project
Agora Project
The
Primer Project
-end-
|
ANNOUNCEMENTS |
ISSS
FORUM
|
|
2004
MEETING |
2004
BULLETIN |
|
SIGS |
CONTACTS |
|
VISITORS |
JOIN
ISSS
|
Bertalanffy papers found!
April 1 2004. The lost papers of Ludwig von Bertalanffy have been
found and are in safe hands. Carbon copies of all the letters he sent
and originals of those he received have been preserved by his wife. Watch
here for breaking news.
Look at them here!
What is the ISSS?
The ISSS is a broadly
based professional society
of scientists,philosophers, educators, futurists,
humanists, business and policy practicioners, artists,
writers, and many other professionals from diverse
endeavors, who are drawn together by a common interest:
understanding and interacting systemically with reality.
Our basic approach is both scientific and philosophical
in the broadest and most evolutionary sense of the
scientific enterprise. Science and humanities are
evolving new paradigms, most notably a systemic view,
and ISSS is at the forefront of that evolution.
Presenting
" ISSS explores the multiple
perspectives of systemics
through its Special Integration Groups (SIGs).
SIGs are formed from the collective interests of
ISSS members, and represent the dynamics of creative
exploration and philosophical/scientific integration
that is at the core of ISSS work."
ANNOUNCING
Asilomar 2004
Welcome
For more information about ISSS, please contact:
ISSS President
Ken Bailey
kbailey@soc.ucla.edu
Vice President of Administration
Jennifer Wilby
isssoffice@dsl.pipex.com
Administration
|
-
below under construction
Special Presentations
Links
Bulletins
Educational Projects
- For
- Science
For
-
- Humanity
|
"We are dealing with emergent realities;
no longer with isolated groups of men, but with a
systematically interdependent global community .
It is this level of [reality]which we must keep
before our eyes if we are able to inspire large-scale
action designed to assure our collective
and hence our individual survival"
"Compared to the analytical procedure of
classical science with resolution into component elements
and one-way or linear causality as basic category,
the investigation of organized wholes of many variables
requires new categories
of interaction, transaction, organization, teleology..."
"These considerations lead to the postulate of a new
scientific discipline which we call general system
theory.
It's subject matter is formulation of principles
that are valid for "systems" in general,
whatever the nature of the component elements
and the relations or "forces" between them...
"General system theory, therefore, is
a general science of wholeness"...
The meaning of the somewhat mystical expression,
"The whole is more that the sum of its parts"
is simply that constitutive characteristics are not explanable
from the characteristics of the isolated parts. "
(L. v. Bertalanffy)
To
Order General System Theory
Winner of the
Calresco Award
with special
thanks to
 |
