SIG: Research to General Theories
SIG: Research Towards General Systems Theories - Chair: David Rousseau. Email: david.rousseau@systemsphilosophy.org
General Systems Theories (GSTs) are needed to unify the systems sciences under common frameworks of description, analysis and explanation, and open up new routes to systems-scientific innovation. Current GSTs are still nascent, and this SIG provides a venue for developing and discussing ideas, strategies, frameworks, opportunities and challenges relevant to research towards developing and applying GSTs.
Topics include:
Refining the concepts central to general systems research, such as “system”, “isomorphy”, “mechanism”, “open-ness”, “emergence”, etc.;
Affirming or challenging the philosophical frameworks underlying contemporary general systems research;
Identifying isomorphies of systemic behaviors across kinds of concrete systems, and exposing the systemic mechanisms underlying or linking them;
Identifying general systems principles that underlie systemic isomorphies, or strategies for identifying such principles, and related work;
Discussing the limitations and potentials of GST to facilitate interdisciplinary communication, scientific discovery, and the unity of knowledge; and
The development of a transdisciplinarity grounded in GST.
Every Saturday the ISSS members meet online using iZoom in conversation on a variety of topics.
Below is the introduction fo Research towards General Theories of Systems and Systems Philosophy presented to ISSS members.
Introduction by David Rousseau from Saturday SIG Session in 2019
Papers presented at Annual Meetings
2018
” The General Theory of Dynamics Systemicity” Part 7
Jean-Jacques BLANC
Foundational Concepts Underlying a Formal Mathematical Basis for Systems Science
Kenneth Lloyd
Advanced Special Systems Theory
Kent Duane Palmer
Nested Levels of Organized Systems: A New Model of Multiple Nested Interacting Entropies that Result in the Production of Complexity
James N Rose
2017
What Does Constructor Theory Construct?: Knowledge As a Physical Property
Aleksandar Malecic
2016
The General Theory of Metadynamics Systemicity: Part 6: Neighbourhood and the 4D Neighbouring of things
Jean-Jacques Blanc
Addressing the Whole Whole
Thomas R Marzolf
Footprints of General Systems Theory
Aleksandar Malecic
System Language: Understanding Systems
George Mobus, Kevin Anderson
The Linkage between Systems Thinking and Ethics
William F Roth
2015
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2014
Toward a System Type Structure
Thomas R Marzolf
Beyond Systems Philosophy
Further Conceptual Trends in the History of Systems Philosophy From Systems Philosophy to a Philosophy of Schemas
Kent Duane Palmer
General System Theory: Towards the Unification of Science
Manuel Pretel Wilson
2013
The General Theory of Metadynamics Systemicity
Jean-Jacques BLANC
Toward a System Type Structure
Thomas R Marzolf
General Systems Theory and Spirituality and Religion
Somasundaram Rajendran
Philosophical Conditions for Sustainable Outcomes to Complex Systemic Interventions
David Rousseau
2012
The Integration Challenge for the Systems Sciences: Highlighting Internal and External Interconnections
Andreas Hieronymi
Yes, there is a general system principle, No it is not a theory
Thomas M Mandel
General Theory: the Problems of Construction
Serge Patlavskiy
ABSOLUTE RELATIVITY: THE 5TH DIMENSION.
Luis Sancho
TRUE, GOOD AND GENERAL SYSTEM THEORIES: How to Develop and Evaluate Them
Carl Slawski
From Bertalanffy to Discipline-Independent-Transdisciplinarity
Vincent Vesterby
Existing and Emerging Methods for Integrating Theories Within and Between Disciplines
Steve Wallis
2011
The Papers are not grouped by SIG on https://journals.isss.org