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Journal articles on the topic "System theory; science philosophy; postmodernism"

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Sevastov, Kirill V. "Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems: the postmodern character of society’s descriptors." Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology, no. 4 (December 5, 2022): 42–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.33581/2521-6821-2022-4-42-47.

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The article carried out a comparative analysis of the basic provisions of the theory of social systems by N. Luhmann and the principles of the philosophy of postmodernism. Considering the categorical apparatus of N. Luhmann’s concept, the author finds points of semantic intersection with a number of key concepts of modern social philosophy, as well as mutual resonation of basic principles. The article proves that the comparison of the theory of social systems by N. Luhmann and the philosophy of postmodernism can be carried out according to several criteria: subjective (general scope of research), historical (common time and context of occurrence) and meaningful (when the perspective of consideration is shifted, it becomes possible to identify semantic parallels named theories). Thus, the article draws a parallel between N. Luhmann’s subjectless sociology and the postmodern concept of the absent subject. In accordance with the theory of social systems by N. Luhmann, the subject is non-communicative by definition. In the conceptual apparatus of the philosophy of postmodernism, a meaningfully similar rejection of the interpretation of the subject in its classical sense is fundamental. A meaningful connection between the concept of binary truth by N. Luhmann, on the one hand, and the subjectivist theory of truth in postmodernism, on the other hand, is revealed. Thus, the truth in the context of N. Luhmann’s social system depends on its relevance for the individual, fitting into the system of knowledge that is significant for him at the moment, the truth is modeled in a non-static context and can be re-evaluated in a subjective way, depending on the shift in the focus of the relevance of one or another fragment of knowledge of the individual. Similarly, in postmodern philosophy there is a subjectivisation of truth, which turns out to be a variable not only in the socio-cultural frame of reference, but also in the frame of reference of the individual. Thus, the article proves that there are semantic parallels in the theory of social systems of N. Luhmann and postmodern philosophy, which allow us to say that, independently of each other, N. Luhmann, on the one hand, and postmodern authors, on the other, develop a new vision of cognitive processes within the post-non-classical type of rationality.
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Lee, Derek. "Postquantum: A Tale for the Time Being, Atomik Aztex, and Hacking Modern Space-Time." MELUS 45, no. 1 (December 18, 2019): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlz057.

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Abstract This study identifies the postquantum novel as an emerging subgenre of speculative ethnic fiction that challenges the prevailing logic of Western space-time in contemporary literature. In contrast with archetypal twentieth-century literary modes such as modernism, postmodernism, and science fiction, postquantum fiction strays from classical and quantum mechanics—and Western science more broadly—as default knowledge systems and instead turns to premodern, indigenous, and non-Western epistemes as equally valid intellectual frameworks for representing reality. Drawing from philosophy of science and postcolonial theory, this study reads Zen Buddhism in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being (2013) and the Meso-American calendrical sciences in Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex (2005) as alternative logics of space-time and argues that the postquantum novel destabilizes many of the physicalist assumptions undergirding temporality and spatiality in twenty-first-century narrative. Postquantum fiction thus constitutes an original form of epistemological critique that decolonizes Western scientific hegemony in literature via ethnoscientific theory and praxis while also expanding the social justice concerns of ethnofuturism to include traditional and marginalized knowledge.
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Gavristova, Tatyana M., and Nadezhda E. Khokholkova. "Postcolonial Epistemology: African “Registers”." Vestnik RUDN. International Relations 22, no. 4 (December 30, 2022): 688–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2022-22-4-688-699.

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With global digitalization and the resulting intensification of communication processes, the accumulation and retransmission of ideas and their connotations have accelerated. The academic environment has changed in the course of updating the research field and building up a new picture of the world, complex and diversified. The accumulation of “critical mass” of talented intellectual scholars based both in Africa and within the African Diaspora, focused on “breakthrough” in philosophy and epistemology, was reflected in an attack on the theoretical principles of postmodernism and Postcolonialism and a dynamic transformation of the conceptual principles and content of African studies. Contrary to Eurocentrism, Africa has become an epistemological laboratory, where the developing theories claiming to become metanarratives, within which new metalexemes and metagenres are emerging. Postcolonial discourse contains elements of metascience, a universal system of knowledge production. The interrelation of facts and methodology in their framework fully corresponds to the trends of the time in the era of algorithms, and their choice both forms the mechanisms of scientific knowledge, but also ensures success in the fight against stereotypes, not only racial and ethnic. The theoretical and methodological significance of postcolonial studies refers to the actualization of the “crossroad” problems in the history of Africa and the Diaspora, such as colonialism and decolonization, ethnicity and identity, hybridity and otherness, essentialism and transcendence, exodus and exile. In the present article the authors focus on the results of the interaction of researchers of African descent with postcolonial theory, as well as on the ideas of postcoloniality and decoloniality, which to a certain extent oppose each other. Particular attention is paid to the development of an updated epistemology of knowledge in the process of the formation of the “postcolonial library,” which includes the works of many scholars from Franz Fanon and Leopold Senghor to Kwame Anthony Appiah and Achille Mbembe.
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Savchyn, Myroslav. "Postmodern worldview and problematic context of personality’s psychological cognition." Psihologìâ ì suspìlʹstvo 4, no. 82 (December 1, 2020): 7–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.35774/pis2020.04.007.

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The semantic characteristics of the postmodern worldview and its mostly destructive influence on the state of solving the existing problems of psychological science are analyzed at the methodological level. In this worldview, the image of the world is seen as a multidimensional, heterogeneous, mosaic formation, and culture is seen as a sphere of manifestation of the ecstasy of communication; emphasis is placed on the dynamics of processes and no attention is paid to stable modes; the order is sought in chaos, which somehow helps to maintain a sense of stability of the system in a deficit of order, the opposite processes of structuring and chaos are reflected and the idea of multiplicity of beauty is developed. In the bosom of this worldview, life is seen as a text, and communication (dialogue) as a key moment in the personality’s social existence, the contextuality (dependence on socio-cultural influences) of human’s everyday life is proclaimed, procedures of controlling the discourses are characterized, which is caused by “linguistic turn”, concentration of considerations on the texts. It is noted that postmodern ideology actually declares a taboo on science, objectivity in the world cognition, because imitation is attributed to reality itself, the possibility of constructing a systematized theory and philosophy is denied, the network principle of knowledge organization is proposed, and to ensure its “objectivity” it is proposed to abandon the category of subject in order to get rid of the subjectivity of cognition, which seems to be manifested in the adherence to values and meanings of cognitive activity, and to define the structure of cognition the concept of “epistem” is operated, which characterizes the structure of historically variable cognition. In general, in the postmodern worldview it is promoted to achieve objectivity through dialogue, communication, and convention, when intersubjectivity is a criterion of truth, and methodological progress is associated with interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. In this worldview dimension, against the background of nihilism, the personality is considered as dynamic, flowing, changeable, polyphonic, not rigidly determined, emancipated structurally, and without a stabilizing core (spiritual Self, gender, Self-concept), individually unique is exaggeratedly interpreted, that one which is not combined with universal and neutral in relation to objective values (for example, amoralism). Freedom is misinterpreted as permissiveness, even in the field of self-realization and self-creation. The postmodernist idea of narrative as a textual interpretation of the world, one’s personality and one’s life is analyzed. It is argued that there can be different relationships between the processes of real life and narration, because a person is able to live fully without resorting to narration. It is noted that postmodernism neglects the stabilizing phenomena of the human’s inner world, the eternal meanings of life (creation of faith, love, good and the fight against evil, the spread of authentic freedom and responsibility, hope, happy moments, healing states of humility and repentance for unworthy deeds, spiritual understanding of suffering). It is argued that due to the focus on the spiritual in his inner world and life, personality constructively overcomes chaos, organizes worries, thoughts, intentions, she has great hope, realizes great life goals, finds authentic meanings of being and then she really feels happy. The spiritual Self makes us stronger, allows us to act intelligently in conditions of uncertainty, the pressure of complex problems allows us to overcome stressful situations, to benefit from our own spiritual suffering.
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Haynes, Bruce. "After postmodernism in Educational (Philosophy and) Theory." Educational Philosophy and Theory 50, no. 14 (November 25, 2018): 1491–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1458778.

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hoy, terry. "derrida: postmodernism and political theory." Philosophy & Social Criticism 19, no. 3-4 (July 1993): 243–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019145379301900302.

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Stables, Andrew. "After postmodernism in educational theory?" Educational Philosophy and Theory 50, no. 14 (November 25, 2018): 1568–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1458775.

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Jagodzinski, Jan. "After postmodernism in educational theory?" Educational Philosophy and Theory 50, no. 14 (November 25, 2018): 1642–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1461393.

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Wu, Manfred Man-fat. "After postmodernism in educational theory?" Educational Philosophy and Theory 50, no. 14 (November 25, 2018): 1406–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1461426.

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Zembylas, Michalinos. "Mourning postmodernism in educational theory." Educational Philosophy and Theory 50, no. 14 (November 25, 2018): 1608–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1462514.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "System theory; science philosophy; postmodernism"

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Ranjha, Wajid Ali. "Critical theory, modernity and the question of post-colonial identity." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phr197.pdf.

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Erskine, Brian Michael. "Postmodernist Pedagogy's Effect on Doctoral Level Political Theory Instruction and Curriculum." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32823.

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Among the 123 political science programs listed by the American Political Science Association that grant Ph.D.s in political science, only seven require every student to complete some sort of political theory or philosophy course. Eighty-one offer students the opportunity to select political theory or philosophy as a concentration. Most surprising, 39 programs advertise no courses in political theory or philosophy at all. Political philosophy, at the doctoral level, is being treated as an optional option. Given these findings about the lack of political philosophy and theory at the doctoral level, the study of all things theoretical or philosophical seems to be overshadowed by other subfields of research. The not so subliminal message being sent by this sort of phenomenon is that some subfields of political science have a higher priority than others. In addition to identifying the number of political science programs that require coursework in political theory, this thesis explores the shift of the political theory offered away from traditional philosophical foundations and toward a postmodern pedagogical approach. This type of pedagogy can have the secondary effect of devaluing traditional notions of teaching and learning in favor of collaborative learning and learner centered teaching. Following the movement to reform the educational system in France after the student riots of 1968, narratives of morality were replaced by the idea that such social constructs ought to be abandoned for a focus on individualism and intertexuality.
Master of Arts
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Ingram, David. "Using systems theory to do philosophy : one approach, and some suggested terminology : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Philosophy in the University of Canterbury /." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Philosophy and Religious Studies, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1022.

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This thesis employs perspectives inspired by General Systems Theory to address issues in philosophy, including moral philosophy and philosophy of mind. I present an overview of a range of ideas from the study of physical systems that may be used to provide a firm physicalist foundation to explorations of some common questions in philosophy. I divide these topics into three categories: the Physical Category, the Relevance Category and the Signal Elements Category. I interpret concepts from General Systems Theory, including information and entropy, in a way that I believe facilitates their incorporation into philosophical discussion. I also explain various points arising from General Systems Theory, such as order and disorder, stability, complexity, and self-organisation, and show how ideas from these areas can be applied to certain philosophical problems. I explain relevance in terms of stability, in order to link these scientific perspectives to questions in moral philosophy. I suggest a possible physical foundation for a theory of morality, which takes the form of a variety of Utilitarianism, intended to balance the competing needs of open systems to manage entropy. Such a theory of morality must be capable of dealing with limitations arising from the physicality of information; I propose game theory as a solution to this problem. This thesis also covers issues connected to the above points regarding the nature of consciousness and communication. In particular, I examine the role of linguistic associations in consciousness; and some related features of language and other non-linear representational schemes.
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Joubert, Carel W. T. "Sensing and organising : an interpretation of the thought of Karel E. Weick." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50447.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The focus in this thesis is on sensemaking in organisations and the aim was to offer an interpretation of the thought of Karl E. Weick. The interpretation subsequently consists of a description and discussion of concepts, underlying theories and paradigmatic perspectives that are integrated into and deployed in Weick's sensemaking framework. After a description and definition of sensemaking terms and concepts, it is argued that a process cosmology forms the ground theory in Weick's sensemaking framework. In order to elucidate this interpretation, the organic model of the world of Bergson and Whitehead is introduced. Special attention is given to pragmatism's underlying process ontology and themes which social consructionism, symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology share in common with pragmatism. The aim is to show how these perspectives and themes are taken up in Weick's sensemaking in organisations and organisational theory. A failure to make sense is both consequential and existential. This aspect of Weick's thought is discussed in the context of Bergson's process cosmology. It is followed by a description and discussion of Weick's use of systems theory with special attention given to Weick's concept of 'enactment' . How and why does an organisation becomes what it becomes? This question is addressed in the context of a description and discussion of complexity theory. A core concept in both complexity theory and Weick's thought is self-organisation. The aim is to show how sense making appears on systems level. Finally, this thesis attempts to addresses the question of the relationship between organisation and organising and how both terms is to be understood in terms of Weick's ontological view of the world. This aim is to show that Weick's understanding of "the" organisation (noun) can be conceived of as an abstraction and organisation (verb - 'organising') in terms of relating and as process in becoming and how he thereby gives social construction an ontological twist. The conclusion reached is that, in the type of world Weick describes, it makes sense to make sense.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis fokus op 'sensemaking' in organisasies - om die dubbelsinnige, onduidelike en onverwagse meer duidelik, begryplik and redelik te maak vir persone om te weet wat besig is om te gebeur en gepaste aksies te neem. Die doel was derhalwe 'n interpretasie van die denke van Karl E. Weick. Die interpretasie omvat gevolglik 'n beskrywing en bespreking van konsepte, teorieë en paradigmatiese perspektiewe wat Weick in sy sensemaking raamwerk integreer en ontplooi. Ná 'n definiëring en beskrywing van terme en konsepte word geargumenteer dat 'n proses beskouing van die werklikheid Weick se sensemaking raamwerk onderlê. Hierdie interpretasie word toegelig met 'n bespreking en beskrywing van die organiese model van Bergson en Whitehead, sowel as die proses ontologie onderliggend aan pragmatisme. Gevolglik kom pragmatisme, sosiale konstruksionisme, simboliese interaksionisme en etnometodologie aan die orde. Verskeie temas word beskryf en bespreek in die konteks van sensemaking en organisasie-teorie. 'n Mislukking in sensemaking het newe gevolge en is dit ook eksistensieël van aard. Hierdie aspek van Weick se denke word beskryf en bespreek in die konteks van Bergson se proses kosmologie en word die interpretasie opgevolg met 'n bespreking van sisteem-teorie. Hoe en waarom verander organisasies wanneer hulle verander? Die antwoord op hierdie vraag kom aan die orde in die konteks van 'n bespreking van kompleksiteits-teorie. 'n Kern konsep in beide Weick se sensemaking en kompleksiteits-teorie is self-organisasie. 'n Baie belangrike doel is om aan te dui hoe sensemaking voorkom en plaasvind op sisteem-vlak. Ten slotte poog die tesis om die verband tussen organisasie en organisering in Weick se denke meer verstaanbaar te maak. Die argument hier is dat Weick se verstaan van "die" organisasie (selfstandige naamwoord) as 'n abstraksie en organisasie (werkwoord) in terme van relasies en proses in wording geïnterpreteer kan word, en Weick sodoende 'n ontologiese kinkel in die verstaan van sosiale konstruksionisme teweeg bring. Die slotsom tot waartoe in hierdie studie gekom word is dat, in die wêreld wat Weick beskryf, maak dit 'sense' om 'sense' te maak.
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Öjehag, Pettersson Andreas. "Gloarchy : Polyarchy in the Age of Globalization." Thesis, Karlstad University, Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-3335.

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This thesis tries to evaluate the very large question of how globalization can be said to have an effect on democracy by reducing both concepts to a more usable format. In doing so it tries to evaluate how a special theory of democracy put forward by Robert Dahl in 1971 – polyarchy – could be said to be affected by the workings of contemporary globalization. When assessing the variables of the investigation, globalization is being represented by two constructed ideal images that are later measured against a set of seven variables extracted from Dahl’s theory.

By the use of qualitative text analysis the constructed ideal types help provide a framework for how one can measure the effects of globalization on polyarchy. The analysis ends in a result where it is clear that if globalization is understood as a neo-liberal ideal image it is making the circumstances for the creation of polyarchies in the future more favorable. However, if globalization is understood as an ideal image of world-system theory explanations then the circumstances for future polyarchies are less favorable. In a concluding discussion important implications of the results are highlighted when the thesis concludes that regardless of ideological starting point globalization can be said to affect the theory of polyarchy in such a way that it is in dire need of reevaluation. At the same time the essay concludes that whenever the concept of globalization is being used with scientific ambitions by politicians, they need to be aware of, and reflect, the different results that it brings depending on how it is explained.

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Keen, Daniel E. Rossi. "Hope in America Lyotard and Rorty, Dobson and Obama, and the struggle to maintain hope in postmodern times /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1219434292.

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Matthews, David Brian. "Rethinking systems thinking : towards a postmodern understanding of the nature of systemic inquiry." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/70173.

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"Charting Caregiver Movement Using a Complexity Science Framework: An Emergent Perspective." Doctoral diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.18750.

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abstract: Health and healing in the United States is in a moment of deep and broad transformation. Underpinning this transformation is a shift in focus from practitioner- and system-centric perspectives to patient and family expectations and their accompanying localized narratives. Situated within this transformation are patients and families of all kinds. This shift's interpretation lies in the converging and diverging trails of biomedicine, a patient-centric perspective of consensus between practitioner and patient, and postmodern philosophy, a break from prevailing norms and systems. Lending context is the dynamic interplay between increasing ethnic/cultural diversity, acculturation/biculturalism, and medical pluralism. Diverse populations continue to navigate multiple health and healing paradigms, engage in the process of their integration, and use health and healing practices that run corollary to them. The way this experience is viewed, whether biomedically or philosophically, has implications for the future of healthcare. Over this fluid interpenetration, with its vivid nuance, loom widespread health disparities. The adverse effects of static, fragmented healthcare systems unable to identify and answer diverse populations' emergent needs are acutely felt by these individuals. Eradication of health disparities is born from insight into how these populations experience health and healing. The resulting strategy must be one that simultaneously addresses the complex intricacies of patient-centered care, permits emergence of more localized narratives, and eschews systems that are no longer effective. It is the movement of caregivers across multiple health and healing sources, managing care for loved ones, that provides this insight and in which this project is keenly interested. Uncovering the emergent patterns of caregivers' management of these sources reveals a rich and nuanced spectrum of realities. These realities are replete with opportunities to re-frame health and healing in ways that better reflect what these diverse populations of caregivers and care recipients need. Engaging female Mexican American caregivers, a population whose experience is well-suited to aid in this re-frame, this project begins to provide that insight. Informed by a parent framework of Complexity Science, and balanced between biomedical and postmodern perspectives, this constructivist grounded theory secondary analysis charts these caregivers' processes and offers provocative findings and recommendations for understanding their experiences.
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Ph.D. Healthcare Innovation 2013
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Krueger, Anton Robert. "Science as narrative : Alan Sokal's critique of postmodernism." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17133.

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Alan Sokal has questioned the postmodern assertion that 'science is ... a "myth'', a "narration" ... a "social construction'" (1998: x). This dissertation examines his reasons for rejecting this allegedly postmodern declaration. Firstly, it suggests that the basis for Sol'1ll's contention that a 'true' world exists beyond one's awareness of it extends to an attack on modem philosophy, and is not limited to its postmodern component. Then, it describes defences of the 'linguistic construction' of science as thinly veiled attempts at emulating scientific discourses. In a more speculative vein, the dissertation goes on to evaluate claims made against science in terms of its connection to warfare; its insensitivity to mythology, and its generally misdirected values. It is in terms of value that the dissertation detects an analogous relationship between the discourses of mythology and science. Finally, a playful 'postmodern' reading is attempted of Sol'1ll's use of fiction in establishing the truth of his assertions.
English Studies
M.A.(English)
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Ranjha, Wajid Ali. "Critical theory, modernity and the question of post-colonial identity / Wajid Ali Ranjha." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19226.

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Bibliography: leaves 308-316.
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This thesis seeks to understand the interrelation of knowledge, power and culture in the context of globalization. Crisis of Marxism has prompted intense reflection on the nature of modernity as a post-cultural phenomenon. This discourse highlights forms of domination and resistance neglected by Marxism and Liberalism. Intellectual developments in the West have acquired a halo of universality which makes it difficult for outsiders to recognise their limitations. The debate between modernists and postmodernists is a case in point. Post-colonial theorists appropriation of post-structuralism, thematic and methodological, raises questions about their own relationship to Western theory and whether their analyses neglect material aspects of globalization as well as problems specific to post-colonial societies. This thesis contends that it is unnecessary to absolutise the "culture vs. materialism" dichotomy. While it may be true that the cultural is "always already" political, critical theory must insist on foregrounding a more activist notion of political agency in a conjecture marked by global management of dissent, economic fundamentalism, media spectacles and cynical conflation of democracy with consumption.
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Politics, 1998?
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Books on the topic "System theory; science philosophy; postmodernism"

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White, Stephen K. Political theory and postmodernism. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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Postmodernism and democratic theory. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.

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Boon, Kevin A. Chaos theory and the interpretation of literary texts: The case of Kurt Vonnegut. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.

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North American critical theory after postmodernism: Contemporary dialogues. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Thinking politics: Perspectives in ancient, modern, and postmodern political theory. Chatham, N.J: Chatham House Publishers, 1997.

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Sretenova, Nikolina. Postmodernata nauka i neĭnite kritit︠s︡i: Vŭrkhu debata Aĭnshtaĭn-Bor i istorii︠a︡ta Sokal. Sofii︠a︡: Kheron pres, 1998.

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Postmodern revisionings of the political. New York: Routledge, 1994.

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Tursman, Richard Allen. Peirce's theory of scientific discovery: A system of logic conceived as semiotic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

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Critical environments: Postmodern theory and the pragmatics of the outside. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

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Scandalous knowledge: Science, truth and the human. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "System theory; science philosophy; postmodernism"

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Metz, Thaddeus. "What science means for postmodernist epistemology and the philosophy of education." In What Comes After Postmodernism in Educational Theory?, 102–3. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003021032-48.

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Marinopoulou, Anastasia. "Introduction." In Critical Theory and Epistemology. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526105370.003.0001.

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Critical Theory and Epistemology is a comparison of the major epistemological concerns in the twentieth century with critical theory of the Frankfurt School. I focus on modern epistemology as a theory of and about science that also addresses the social and political aims of scientific enquiry.The critique that the book deploys on the epistemological tendencies of late modernity suggests that the main distinction between Kant and the critical theorists lies in their understanding of rationality. Such a critique can be characterized as the ‘battle’ of modern epistemology for or against the scientifically, socially and politically rational. Thus, arguments of modern epistemology, as articulated by phenomenology, structuralism, poststructuralism, modernists and postmodernists, systems’ theory and critical realism, can certainly be considered ‘modern’ in historical terms, but in essence their concerns are of a pre-modern and pre-scientific nature. In such a manner, we come closer to understanding what constitutes the scientific, philosophy, truth, and whether modern epistemology paves the way for a political epistemology in the twenty-first century.
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Satoh, Keizo. "The Significance of System Cybernetics for Contemporary Philosophy-Post-Modernity in System Cybernetics." In The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, 228–33. Philosophy Documentation Center, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wcp20-paideia19986158.

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I call the union of cybernetics and systems theory 'Systems Cybernetics.' Cybernetics and systems theory might be thought of a major source of today's striking development in cyber-technology, the science of complex adaptive systems, and so on. Since their genesis about the middle of this century, these two have gradually come to be connected with each other such that they have now formed an integrative theory which can be called Systems Cybernetics. This article pays attention to its aspects which are often overlooked, but which have profound significance for contemporary philosophy and our handling of various problems posed by modern societies. I insist that the dominant factors of European modernization are primarily economic and technological, though modernity has often been characterized by philosophical and scientific rationalism. I also insist that there are several problems which deserve particular attention but are made invisible by the economic and technological inclination of the modern mind. In such a context, the problem of reductionism in modern science and the concept of subject detached from its surroundings are discussed. In order to cope with these problems, main theories of System Cybernetics are applied. Post-modern System Cybernetics — which will be illustrated — is also expected to play an active part.
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Gherdjikov, Serghey Stoilov. "The Limits of Science." In The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, 80–87. Philosophy Documentation Center, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wcp20-paideia199837655.

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Does science have any limits? Scientists say no. Philosophers are divided in their response. The humanities say that science is not "humanitarian," and thus not metaphysically deep. In response, scientists and some philosophers contend that science is the best knowledge we have about the world. I argue that science is limited by its form. Science has no object that derives from the human form. Everything that is incomparable to the dimension of the human body is reducible to notions that are commensurable to that body. This phenomenologically clarifies some of the most important discoveries in contemporary science. The Special Theory of Relativity shows the dependence of space and time on the accounting system. Quantum mechanics displays the limits of observation (Heisenberg) and logical indefiniteness by compelling the creation of a macropresentation of micro-objects and gets around logic (Feyerabend) through the principle of additionality. Experimental science has come out as an artificial projection of human expansion, not as a reflection of the transcendent order of the world itself. "The life world" successfully takes the place of "the objective world" of modern rationality.
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de Bruijn, Nicolaas Govert. "Type-theoretical checking and philosophy of Mathematics." In Twenty Five Years of Constructive Type Theory. Oxford University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198501275.003.0005.

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After millennia of mathematics we have reached a level of understanding that can be represented physically. Humankind has managed to disentangle the intricate mixture of language, metalanguage and interpretation, isolating a body of formal, abstract mathematics that can be completely verified by machines. Systems for computer-aided verification have philosophical aspects. The design and usage of such systems are influenced by the way we think about mathematics, but it also works the other way. A number of aspects of this mutual influence will be discussed in this paper. In particular, attention will be given to philosophical aspects of type-theoretical systems. These definitely call for new attitudes: throughout the twentieth century most mathematicians had been trained to think in terms of untyped sets. The word “philosophy” will be used lightheartedly. It does not refer to serious professional philosophy, but just to meditation about the way one does one’s job. What used to be called philosophy of mathematics in the past was for a large part subject oriented. Most people characterized mathematics by its subject matter, classifying it as the science of space and number. From the verification system’s point of view, however, subject matter is irrelevant. Verification is involved with the rules of mathematical reasoning, not with the subject. The picture may be a bit confused, however, by the fact that so many people consider set theory, in particular untyped set theory, as part of the language and foundation of mathematics, rather than as a particular subject treated by mathematics. The views expressed in this paper are quite personal, and can mainly be carried back to the author’s design of the Automath system in the late 1960s, where the way to look upon the meaning (philosophy) of mathematics is inspired by the usage of the unification system and vice versa. See de Bruijn 1994b for various philosophical items concerning Automath, and Nederpelt et al. 1994, de Bruin 1980, de Bruijn 1991a for general information about the Automath project. Some of the points of view given in this paper are matters of taste, but most of them were imposed by the task of letting a machine follow what we say, a machine without any knowledge of our mathematical culture and without any knowledge of physical laws.
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Downing, Kevin F., and Jennifer K. Holtz. "Controversies and Concurrence in Science Education." In Online Science Learning, 14–29. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-986-1.ch002.

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The practical application of theory, or praxis, in science education is arguably less straightforward today than it has been in preceding generations. While formal education and learning theories have been promulgated for close to 100 years, the changing disposition and balance of academia, and the consequent dissemination of questionable and unverifiable social theories, have led to a more ambiguous discussion and application of au courant learning theories to science education. Much of what the authors consider the detrimental entanglement in academia of definitions and educational theories about science occurs at the confluence of different professional attitudes and motivation. Scientists are generally complacent in terms of championing and defending their own core philosophy and epistemology, and a scientist’s professional rewards and efforts rarely consist of debunking critics in the so-called other ‘ways of knowing’ (see the Science Wars website and the Sokal Affair for a droll exception at http://members.tripod.com/ScienceWars/). The defense of scientific reasoning is not what scientists focus on by training; thus, this is an area that almost certainly needs more systematic attention and treatment in science curricula. By contrast, science’s detractors in the humanities, social sciences and even education, find professional incentive and marketable topic in assailing the science colossus. Most notably, postmodernism with its socially relativistic and radical constructivist theories, replete with the denial of objective truth, have attempted to undermine science, or as Fishman (1996) noted, are attempting to put science on an “indefinite furlough” (p. 95). Like it or not, the science community is at war with nihilistic ideologies and one of the battle grounds is pedagogy, a deliberation that extends to online science learning environments.
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Priego, Natalia. "The origins of the Spencerian theory of evolution." In Positivism, Science and 'The Scientists' in Porfirian Mexico, 45–77. Liverpool University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781382561.003.0003.

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Conscious of the need to explain clearly the fundamental ideas of Spencer, as a preliminary to establishing what ‘the scientists’ made of them, this chapter concentrates upon his theory of evolution. This serves in part to reveal the differences between his philosophy and that of Comte and other important thinkers in Britain and elsewhere of the nineteenth century. It also shows how Spencer gathered together the knowledge and the notion of the world as part of a universal system governed by immutable laws, which ever since the time of Isaac Newton, had been present in British culture, shaping the identity of Victorian Britain, which Spencer captured and unified in order to give it a universal meaning. The chapter concludes with an explanation of the reasons for the popularity of his elegant model for the universe, led by the immanent law of evolution, with tycoons in the United States such as Andrew Carnegie and Edward Livingstone Youmans, who provided him with financial support
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Nikulin, Dmitri. "The System of Physics." In Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity, 158–76. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190662363.003.0010.

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Chapter 10 considers the structure of Proclus’ rarely discussed Elements of Physics and its original contribution to the understanding of physics in antiquity. It is argued that the purpose of the treatise is not only a systematic arrangement of the arguments scattered throughout Aristotle’s works on natural philosophy, using the structure of Euclid’s Elements as a model. Proclus also aims to develop a universal theory of motion or physical change that establishes the first principles as definitions, formulates and demonstrates a number of mutually related propositions about natural objects, and culminates in establishing the existence and properties of the prime mover. Unlike modern physics, which presupposes the applicability of mathematics to physics, Proclus shows that the study of natural phenomena in the more geometrico way can be a systematic rational science arranged by means of logic rather than mathematics.
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Posteraro, Tano S. "Individuality and Organisation." In Bergson's Philosophy of Biology, 132–73. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474488808.003.0005.

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This chapter uses the idea of tendency to show how space and time are not categories, but tendencies. The human intellect seizes on these tendencies and abstracts them to their limits to arrive at the idea of a static spatial grid on the one hand, set against time as a purely interior psychological state on the other. The author argues that all material systems are constituted by some combination of spatial and temporal tendencies. This means that the life/matter dualism that seems to structure much of the popular reception of Bergson’s philosophy has been misunderstood, as inert matter is a category like space. It is an abstraction. Organised material systems, or organisms, are in a particular sort of dynamic equilibrium between the two tendencies. This means that organisation is not a property, as the vitalists have claimed, but a manifestation of the tendency towards time achieving predominance in a material system. This chapter clarifies a number of interpretive difficulties in the reception of Bergson’s philosophy of life. Philosophers of science interested in the recent turn towards process in the philosophy of biology, as well as those interested in the philosophical dimensions of Developmental Systems Theory, should find these discussions particularly engaging.
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Roberts, Jon H. "The Science of the Soul." In Science Without God?, 162–81. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198834588.003.0010.

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In the English-speaking world, Christian thinkers played a fundamental role in laying the foundation for the scientific investigation of the mind. Those thinkers who equated the soul with the psyche and accorded the mind a privileged status in the overall scheme of things played a central role in shaping discourse in mental and moral philosophy and in opposing materialistic interpretations of the mind. During the late nineteenth century, research in neurophysiology, coupled with natural historians’ endorsement of the theory of organic evolution and the increasing use of experimental and quantitative methods of understanding the data of consciousness, led to the emergence of a ‘new psychology’. Although the new psychologists joined Christians in resisting efforts on the part of scientific naturalists to reduce mental phenomena to the activity of the nervous system, they insisted on eliminating ‘God-talk’ from their discipline, thereby differentiating their own preoccupations from those of religious thinkers.
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Conference papers on the topic "System theory; science philosophy; postmodernism"

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Helong, Yu, Zhao Yuxin, Chen Guifen, and Jiao Hongbin. "Notice of Retraction: C++ Teaching Guided by System Theory and Practice Theory in Philosophy." In 2010 2nd International Workshop on Education Technology and Computer Science (ETCS). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/etcs.2010.561.

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Lee, Allen S., and Jeffrey V. Nickerson. "Theory As a Case of Design: Lessons for Design from the Philosophy of Science." In 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2010.484.

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Porobija, Zeljko, and Lovorka Gotal Dmitrovic. "THE "TWINS" IN GENESIS - ARE GOD AND THE DEVIL ONE?" In NORDSCI International Conference. SAIMA Consult Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32008/nordsci2020/b1/v3/23.

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The phenomenon that can be perceived in biblical texts is a specific structure of the relations between characters that basically has the form of “twins”. The “twins” are somehow set at the same distance from the third character, which can be graphically pictured as the top vertex of the triangular structure. However, this third character also has its own “twin”, but their relation is different than the relation between the aforementioned twins: the third and its “twin” somehow go together, yet they are somehow opposite to each other. For this reason, the twin of the third we named “doppelganger”: it is the shadow figure of the third, yet mostly having the different value from it (“positive” instead of “negative”). Usually at the coming of the doppelganger the third disappears from the story. In this paper we shall analyse this phenomenon in the Genesis, but using metodology of Data Science. Data collection was made by reading several translations of the Book of Genesis and recording the appearance of characters (Adam / Eve, Yahweh / Snake). Correlation between parameters was determined using Pearson's and Spearman's correlation coefficient, more precisely, the correlation matrix. After statistical data processing, a conceptual model was developed. Using System Theory, a computer model of this complex, closed system describing a “pattern of behavior” was developed. For the validation of the model, considering that the distributions are asymmetrical non-Gaussian distributions, a non-parametric tests were applied. A search of scientific papers did not find any work that deals with the research of the Book of Genesis as complex, closed system according System Theory, using Data Science methodology and Simulation modelling as a research method. This paper presents a developing knowledge-based model which contributes to philosophy of religion.
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