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
 
None
 
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